Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deacon's "B" basketball team made a clean sweep by beating Eliot House "B's" 37 to 23. Kirkland's Ed Curtiss and Steve Moore, high scorers with nine points each, kept the Deacons ahead...
...year's track team has outstanding men in almost every event. It has a good deal of depth, particularly in some of the running events. If a few men develop to provide a little additional depth in several weak events, there's no reason why this team shouldn't sweep all its dual meets. Yet the members of the track team don't feel a sweep will be sufficient. In recent years, the Crimson has seldom shown to advantage in the big meets--the Heptagonal Championships, for example. This year's group wants to do some heavy scoring in these...
...then poured some water into one of the pans, threw in some carrots which he had just diced (he almost cut off his finger with a wild sweep of the carving knife), and lit the burner on the stove. He was working fast, and Liz followed him about the kitchen admiringly...
...Walk. Four years after Gandhi's death, disciple Vinoba Bhave (rhymes with save), often called the "son of Gandhi" is leading a one-man land reform crusade. His crusade which began with remarkable success in Communist-terrorized Telingana province (TIME, June 4), now promises to sweep through India. Bhave's target: the redistribution of 50 million acres-one-sixth of the cultivated land-among India's millions of landless peasants. His argument: "In India the ideal of Ahimsa (nonviolence) has deeply influenced people's minds. We can successfully bring about peaceful social revolution by gentle persuasion...
...Ossman's superb faking on the optional pitchout play--combined with excellent trap blocking--opened the with excellent trap blocking--opened the defenses every time. And to prove that he wasn't limited to up-the-middle plays, the 192-pound fullback took off on a 20-yard pitchout sweep around right end to score the last touchdown...