Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chudo-the middle way," explained a palace confidant, "neither love match nor arranged marriage." Pretty, 20-year-old Princess Kazuko had begun preparing for marriage two years ago by learning to cook, sew and sweep floors in the home of one of the Emperor's former chamberlains (see cut). The imperial family soon afterward settled on bespectacled Takatsukasa, cousin of the Empress Dowager, as a likely husband, provided both youngsters were willing...
Smyly was unbeatable in the 100-yard free. Fox took second and Norm Watkins third, but Army now held a five-point margin. The Crimson seized the lead for the only time in the meet with a sweep of the 150-yard backstroke by the steadily improving John Steinhart and Tom Woods. The winning time...
...language of the streets today.' . . . But I tell you that a revival will come, I tell you, brother, it will come when the first bomb is dropped on New York or Boston . . . If safe, conservative, so-called intellectual New England can have a revival, why, why shouldn't it sweep the whole West. . . Wouldn't you like to know you were saved if an atomic bomb fell on Boston? . . . I tell you, brother: I have a family, I have two little girls, I have a lovely home, but I tell you I can't see beyond the next...