Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Miguel Aléman Sr., a grocer in the steaming Vera Cruz village of Sayula, took up arms against Dictator Porfirio Diaz, the wind that was to sweep Mexico was hardly a breeze. The next year the Revolution burst forth and churned the country in bitter, bloody civil war. But the Sayula grocer always managed to come out on the right side. He became a general. After the manner of Mexican generals, he also became prosperous. The Aléman family moved to Mexico City...
Journeying up Nassau way on Saturday, after their loss to Penn, the squad met their most powerful opponents of the season to date in the Princeton team. The Red and Black rolled through the six singles and three doubles matches without faltering once to sweep the entire contest...
...police thought they might never know. After a week of headlines, Manhattan's newspapers fell all over each other belaboring the police for intrusion on the lives of two kindly, harmless people. Said the Daily News: "We find ourselves wishing the New York policemen would just sweep Langley's place up a little more, and then quietly steal away, maybe leaving a little bowl of milk for him, on his doorstep...
Kirkland's ace fencer, Dick See, carved out a double victory in the epee and foils events on Thursday to clinch the House fencing crown for the Deacons. Herb Paulides completed the Kirkland sweep when he gained the saber title...
...seven in the evening three times a week distraught baritones may be seen sprinting up to Sever Hall, for Associate Professor G. Wallace Woodworth starts his Glee Club rehearsals on time. With a gigantic sweep of his muscular arms, he sets two hundred pairs of vocal cords vibrating in unison. Late comers tiptoe to their positions to swell the sound that spreads beyond the Yard dormitories. For an hour, or three if necessary, Woody conducts furiously, occasionally shouting "that's it" into the music, or slapping the table with an emphatic "no." Then the singers stop on a temporal dime...