Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel and rival her in coal. The Schuman Plan had become fact, and with it the ceiling imposed by the Allies on Ruhr steel production was finally lifted. Behind a battery of red gladioli in Luxembourg's City Hall, the men whose job it will be to sweep away Western Europe's tariff walls, crush its cartels, modernize its production methods and sell its coal and steel to all members of the Community on "equal terms" sat together for the first time. They were...
...ladder, and with a superb exhibition (e.g., a running, flying one-and-a-half somersault with pike, a handstand with forward cut-through half-gainer layout) took first place in the high-diving contest. Paula Jean Myers and Mrs. Juno Stover Irwin took second and third to make the sweep...
Among the week's standout athletes: ¶ The University of Texas' David ("Skippy") Browning, who led the U.S.'s 1-2-3 sweep in springboard diving...
...Olympic 5,000-meter record in 14 min. 6 sec. With a 10,000-meter record already in the bag, he entered the 26-mile marathon three days later, broke another Olympic record in 2 hrs. 23 min. 3.2 sec. to become the only Olympic athlete ever to sweep the three distance races...
...Marjorie ("The Lithgow Flash") Jackson, who doubled in the 200-meter and 100-meter sprints, equaling the world 100-meter mark of 11.5 sec. ¶ Andy Stanfield, who tied Jesse Owens' 1936 Olympic record of 20.7 sec. in the 200-meter dash to lead a U.S. sweep of the event...