Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Double winners for the freshmen were Joel Landau, who took the 100 and the 200 low hurdles, and Carl Pescosolido, who won the discus and the javelin. Bill Thompson led a Crimson sweep of the mile, while captain Al Gordon...
Rolling wide into the turns, he would sweep to the inner edge of the track, then drift wide again as he blasted out into the brief straightaways. Each lap he picked up precious seconds. At 8 in the evening, Hawthorn's Jag coasted into the pits. "Brakes!" said the disgusted driver; the sleek grey car was through...
...lovers of traditional customs, pursue nude serfs round and round the banquet hall. But Caroline is resolved at least to keep her head. As Prince Michael bears down upon her, his "greedy and sarcastic gaze" inflamed with "voluptuous contempt," Caroline puts a torch to the hangings. Gusts of fire sweep the room. Amid shouts, pistol shots and clouds of alcoholic smoke, Caroline legs it from the lodge, with Michael in hot pursuit, "howling like a wolf." Too late! Caroline has won again...
...delicate balance of Vietnamese politics, he succeeded only in incurring the wrath of his military Chief-of-Staff General Nguyen Thanh Phuong, who is now an avowed supporter of Premier-President Ngo Dinh Diem. "The time has come," said General Phuong one day last year, "for a good sweep of brooms down at the Holy See." The general surprised the Cao Daist "Vatican" at siesta time, disarmed the 400-man papal guard and clapped a score of corrupted princes of the church, including the pope himself, under house arrest...
...sister arts, the movies and theater, found that 38 TV dramas have been sold to Hollywood and seven optioned to Broadway. Two of the dramas (Paddy Chayefsky's The Middle of the Night and N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker) are scheduled to make a clean sweep by appearing in all three places...