Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sweep, the President abolished the complex loyalty-security checks of the Truman Administration, including the top Loyalty Review Board. Eisenhower's new-order fixes final responsibility for employee security on department and agency heads. They, in turn, are to be advised by three-member panels chosen from outside their agencies, but they must still make the ultimate decisions...
When the WAAC was first organized, Congress grudgingly admitted that women could do 54 different Army jobs; under Oveta's constant nudging, they eventually came to fill 239 types of jobs-almost the whole sweep of noncombatant military duties. When the WAC was a year old, she proudly escorted Commander in Chief Franklin Roosevelt on his first full-dress review of the Corps. By 1944, WAC headquarters had requests for 600,000 women-more than three times the authorized strength of the Corps-from commanders all over the world...
Late last month Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks took a wide sweep with his new broom and dismissed Dr. Allen...
...Mello cleared 12 feet to take first in the pole vault, as George Vaillant and Ed Jacobson came in second and third to complete a Crimson sweep. Mello took second in the high jump...
Varsity golf players scored at clean sweep as they overpowered the Bowdoin and M.I.T. golf teams, 7 to 0, in a triangular meet at Oakley Country Club yesterday...