Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tory sweep, a surprise to both government and opposition, clearly signified a protest vote. It was aimed principally at the soaring cost of living (up 10% in the past year), high taxes and credit restrictions. The Liberals still held a top-heavy majority in Parliament (188 seats to 46 for the Tories, 28 for others), but their setback seemed likely to produce policy changes. Among the Ottawa rumors: further steps against inflation; a cabinet shakeup. The government had had a warning that Canadian voters can tire even of the Liberals...
...Harvard's crews (varsity, J.V. and freshman), over Yale's, the eighth Harvard sweep in twelve years under Coach Tom Bolles, who is retiring to become Harvard's athletic director; at New London, Conn...
...asked for a Caesarean operation in the hope that her child, at least, might be saved. The doctor attending her refused. But Jesse Bennett was a physician himself. He put his wife to sleep with a whopping dose of laudanum. She lay on planks set across two barrels. One sweep of the knife laid open the abdomen and soon a baby girl was extracted. Before he closed the incision, Dr. Bennett removed both ovaries, remarking that he "would not be subjected to such an ordeal again...
Willaims has had a successful season, its eight-and-five record including a four victory sweep in Little Three competition (Amherst-Wesleyan-Williams...
...headlong dash reminiscent of the famed St. Louis Gas House Gang, the White Sox were both playing hard-and winning. They wound up their first invasion of the East with seven straight victories, the first time in modern American League history that a Chicago team ever made a clean sweep on an Eastern trip...