Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sudden Flood. What had brought the tide of praise for President Eisenhower to sudden flood was apparently enthusiasm for his bold effort to sweep aside the cold war's barriers by trading visits with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. The chatter about the New Eisenhower came during an Ike week that was dramatic in several other ways. The President was in his usual top form at his press conference, held in a converted Gettysburg gymnasium. On Capitol Hill, an attempt to override an Eisenhower veto of an inflated housing bill failed miserably and all but nailed down a victory...
Last week, on a long, straight course tailor-made for high horsepower, Britain's Tony Brooks led the Ferraris to a one-two-three sweep of the German Grand Prix in West Berlin,* and Brabham failed to finish. But Brabham still leads Brooks in the world driving championship, 27-23, and British experts are betting on the Aussie and the Cooper-Climax to sew up world championship honors on the tortuous turns of the three remaining Grand Prix events...
Siobhan McKenna's Lady Macbeth is a most impressive and consistent performance. For her first entrance she makes a long, grand sweep, with lengthy red tresses flowing down her green gown. Before she has uttered a syllable, we know that this is a woman to be reckoned with, a woman of enormous inner strength. She is able to go on to make it clear that she does not covet the crown just for her own sake but wants her husband to be king at any costs because she is so much in love with him. She introduces a novel twist...
...spite of the sweep of Operation Thunderstorm, the Allies, still wedded to the notion of unconditional surrender, took the position that the July 20 plot was the work of a few desperate Prussian Junker "reactionaries" bent opportunistically on salvaging what they could from a hopeless situation. And even Germans who agreed that Hitler was a menace were appalled at the idea of killing off a commander in time...
...hottest feud in baseball. Last week in San Francisco, in two tense games that were not won until the ninth inning, the Dodgers beat the Giants twice. 3-2, 1-0. It was only justice: just weeks before, the Giants had taken the Dodgers in a two-day sweep. Standings at week's end: Giants in first, Dodgers panting 1½ games behind...