Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blocking Forces. Last week's drive, known as Operation Cedar Falls, was different. Before the main attack force of U.S. battalions made its sweep, the entire triangle was surrounded to cut off escape routes. Battalions of Vietnamese army regulars and U.S. troops were stationed along the perimeter to serve as blocking forces, and fleets of barges fitted out with "quad-fifties" (clusters of four .50-caliber machine guns) patrolled the rivers. But the object of the operation was not simply to trap Viet Cong, even though 286 were killed and 64 captured during the week. This time the Americans...
...eyewitness reported that there were about 25 people in the Bick when the night manager told everyone to leave, explaining that employees needed time to sweep the floor and clean the grill...
...Crimson aces, Bob Corris and Bill Shrout, stood poised on the blocks for the medley. A sweep and the meet was still on. And then Peterson sped to his 2:03.2 record clocking...
...Goliaths Sweep...
Then Harvard began to sweep the running events, destroying the hopes of Northeastern's strong cross-country veterans. The Crimson's David McKelvey flashed to a 1:12.7 in the 600-yard run, just .2 second off his Brigg's Cage record set the weekend before...