Word: sweeping
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...points better than his own world record. But the cheering was not all for the pride of Tulare: his two team mates, New Jersey's 1 8-year-old Milton Campbell and North Carolina's Floyd Simmons had nailed down second and third places for a U.S. sweep of the Olym pics' most demanding test...
...Californian Parry O'Brien, who led the U.S.'s Darrow Hooper and Jim Fuchs to a 1-2-3 sweep in the shotput. O'Brien's winning toss...
...June 30 issue, you comment concerning the golden jubilee race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association: "Then it was up to the varsity (Navy) to duplicate the 'sweep of the river' achieved only by the West Coast's perennial powerhouse, Washington...
...aims," he said firmly, "are clear: to sweep from office an Administration which has fastened on every one of us the wastefulness, the arrogance and corruption in high places, the heavy burdens and the anxieties which are the bitter fruit of a party too long in power...
Navy's sweep now makes the middies a red-hot favorite for next week's final Olympic trials to be held at Worcester (Mass.), with Yale and Harvard (see below) plus other independent rowing clubs joining in an effort to upset Navy. If the middies win, they will be the first Eastern crew to represent the U.S. in the Olympics since 1924. But win or lose, last week's sweep was a particularly happy day for Navy's Rusty Callow, dean of crew coaches. A year ago on the turbulent Ohio, in Callow's first...