Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stalemate. There was no doubt about who was the strategist behind the Communists' desperate thrust: North Viet Nam's Defense Minister General Vo Nguyen Giap, the charismatic victor over the French at Dienbienphu in 1954 and creator of the North Vietnamese army. In its surprise, its boldness, the sweep of its planning and its split-second orchestration, the general offensive bore all the unmistakable marks of Giap's genius. All the evidence indicated, in fact, that probably for the first time since the war against the French, Giap was personally directing the entire campaign in South Viet...
Author Green, who wrote the bestselling The Last Angry Man, should be far too expert to make such mistakes in a novel-but To Brooklyn with Love is not really a novel, since the author does not seem to control the recollections that sweep him along. It is a superb memoir indifferently disguised as fiction. If Albert the world's worst punchball player did not actually become Gerald the novelist, at very least they must have shared Brownsville in the 1930s. The reader sees this after 20 pages of irritation, and the awkward pretense of fiction no longer matters...
...young man's affinity for bold, large-scale works-especially from the late 19th and early 20th centuries -that glow with color and abound with dramatic contrasts. His concern is not detail but sweep and sound. He hears music with his nerve ends more than with his intellect. For this reason, he is less assured when he traces the transparent architecture of Mozart and Bach, or unfolds the subtle poetry of Schubert. Yet these are not fatal flaws in a conductor of his age. What is important is that he has the right foundation to build on. The visceral...
Shaw narrowed the gap to inches at the half-lap mark, caught his teammate with a quarter-lap remaining, and finally lunged ahead to win in 4:17.6. Baker crossed the line a tenth of a second behind. Doupg Hardin was third to give the Crimson its only sweep of the night...
...pound shot put, the Crimson went on to shut out the preppies in four of the remaining 10 contests. Nosal's 66-1 heave of the 28-pound weight is possibly the best in the history of freshman indoor track at Harvard. He also led a sweep of the shot put. Yardling football standout Richie Szaro contributed a third in that event...