Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Polytechnic students saw a specific test for their questions: Poland's general elections next January. A free and honest election in Poland today could result in a clean sweep for the now banned Catholic parties, so deep runs the revulsion from Communism. The January elections will not be free, but the Communists, under intense pressure, will offer approved alternate candidates on a one-party slate for the first time. The Polytechnic students (members of Catholic, Socialist and Communist youth organizations) seemed ready to accept this, provided they could nominate some of the "approved alternates." Similar groups among factory workers...
Ohio State's Glenn Davis, 22, skimmed the 400-meter hurdles in a casual 50.1 sec. victory. Right behind him came Texas' Eddie Southern, 18, and the Marines' Josh Culbreath, 24, to give the U.S. a sweep of the first three places. Outside the main stadium, but earning points that counted for as much, Bantamweight Charles Vinci of York, Pa. hoisted 753.5 Ibs. aloft and Featherweight Isaac Berger of Brooklyn lifted 776.5 Ibs. to corral another pair of gold medals...
...victory settled anything permanently. For one thing, the Kremlin was throwing dust in all directions; e.g., at week's end, almost as if there had been no Budapest, no threat of desert war, the Russians proposed a new disarmament plan, which they couched in boasts that they could sweep across Western Europe-and punctuated by a new high-level A-bomb test...
When the Elis used their favorite plays, the end sweep, or the quarterback option around end, they were ensured of good yardage. The Blue blockers could always take out the backer-up and keep the end in, opening up a tremendous hole, which runners like McGill and Ward could burst through almost untouched...
...ability to get his ideas across to the plain citizen. (And, unlike Stevenson, quipped a Pittsburgh newsman, his name is Joe.) When Clark ran for mayor of Philadelphia five years ago, he made dozens of street-corner speeches, waved a broom over his head to dramatize the clean sweep he intended to make (and did) at graft-ridden city hall. Against Duff, he demonstrated the same ability to pound home simple, telling points. His most effective charge: Duff's frequent absences from the Senate left Pennsylvania with an empty chair on Capitol Hill...