Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strategically, the week's most important development in Libya was the spectacular British sweep by "mechanized patrols" across the base of the Libyan hump. The patrols could not have been very strong, but they were apparently strong enough to attack and destroy Axis land convoys, which were working along the road which was the only Axis supply line from the west...
This audacious sweep was the key to Britain's plan in Libya. Like every other British move of the battle so far, it had been conceived with a double-edged purpose : 1) to cut off Axis supplies; 2) to whittle down Axis force and supply by actual attack...
Second-generation Italians made a clean sweep of U.S. baseball honors in the season just past. Joe DiMaggio, native of San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf, was voted the American League's Most Valuable Player. Dolph Camilli, another San Franciscan, was voted Most Valuable in the National League. Phil Rizzuto, New York Yankee shortstop, was the outstanding rookie of the year...
Autopsy. Author Chamberlin doubts "whether most Americans realize the ex tent of the fall of liberal civilization in Europe, the thorough sweep of old stand ards and values." In chapters like The Russian Revolt Against Civilization; Ital ian Fascism: Middle Class Bolshevism; The German Power Machine; The Clash of Revolutions in the Orient; The Fall of France; America Faces the Iron Age, he makes sure that they will...
...questions in some copies - a dead giveaway. When the quiz is first made up, asterisks are carried on the correct answers to avoid mistakes in the answer column, but these marks are, of course, supposed to be removed when TIME goes to press. This TIME the printers failed to sweep all the star dust under...