Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a rolling green-sodded R.A.F. airdrome, the Airacobras tucked up their tricycle undercarriages, climbed like express elevators and turned east in a sweep, searching for Germans. In the air they looked like ducks. Their long necks were stiff with a fast-firing 20-mm. cannon and two .50-caliber machine guns. Their tight-clipped wings coddled four ,303-caliber machine guns. Their pilots sat in a comforting body of armor. Up above the two-mile mark they hunted for their first live targets. But no Messerschmitts appeared. The Airacobras waited a while, then turned homeward in a grey swoop...
Celebrating the clean sweep over Yale at New London last June, the Varsity crew squad will have a gala victory dinner at the Harvard Club tonight with a series of speakers, including Bill Bingham, Dick Harlow, Tom Bolles, Robert F. Herrick '90, and the President of the Harvard Club...
...addition to stalling the drive on Moscow, the Russians claimed to have stopped the German sweep along the Sea of Azov toward the oil port of Rostov completely, and there were reports of rain, snow, and howling winds on the Russian plains which indicated that the Moscow front would not much longer be conductive to mechanized warfare. But meantime the Germans were hurling their machines, into the battle furiously...
Riding high after their clean sweep against Boston University last week, Coach Jaakko Mikkola's Varsity and Freshman cross country teams swing into action again at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon against Holy Cross...
MOSCOW, Wednesday -- Twelve thousand Germans fell on the snow-covered battlefield before Moscow yesterday but still the Germans advanced on the city from the north, west and south, and in an accompanying sweep along the Sea of Azov captured the important port of Maviupol, a communique said today...