Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voters of Cambridge overwhelmingly rejected the 17 controversial School Committee appointments and the proposed abolition of proportional representation at the polls yesterday. It was a clear sweep for the Cambridge Civic Association on the two referendum questions in this year's election...
...lakefront symbol of the city. His answer was to keep the main floor open, se that a visitor entering from the upper level, off Lincoln Memorial Drive, can see through to the lake beyond, thus providing a visual link between city and lake. To give the building sweep and drama, he designed soaring, 30-ft. cantilevers for the upper stories, which house meeting rooms and a two-story memorial hall...
...radiotelescope at Jodrell Bank turned itself into an impromptu radar and pinpointed the satellite or its carrier rocket over Britain. As the slowly shifting orbit carried Sputnik over the east coast of the U.S., hundreds of early risers in New England saw the sunlit speck sweep across the predawn sky. Some saw two moving objects, the brighter of which was probably the carrier. Shot on film at Baltimore by WJZ-TV using a camera with a secret Bendix light amplifier, the spectacle was broadcast to the U.S. over Westinghouse TV stations...
...news in science, week after week, falls into a wondrous variety of categories-from astronomy (the sweep of galaxies) to biology (the strange way of animals) to archaeology (the digging into man's past). Occasionally, as it does this week, the fascinating news in science comes under agriculture. Now quarantined in the Carolinas is a pesky parasite called Striga asiatica, or witchweed, that could cause more trouble than Asian flu and ruin crops from Virginia to Texas. See SCIENCE, Little Red Flower...
...help sweep the prostitutes off the streets, the Wolfenden Report recommends that maximum penalties be increased to a ?10 fine for a first offense, ?25 the second time around, and a three-month jail sentence on a third arrest. The present ?2 ($5.60) fine even for repeated offenders has prevailed for more than a century, and is regarded by many prostitutes as a license: they keep their receipts to show bobbies that they have been run in recently. Said Probation Official Frank Dawtry: "I don't think increasing the penalty is going to have much effect-a girl will...