Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playing first doubles, Jim Gallwey and Fred Vinton won, 6-1, 6-1. Ned Weld and Bill Wood triumphed 6-0, 6-0 in the second slot, while Jim Cameron and Dick Chute completed the sweep with a 6-1, 6-0 victory...
...week in a happy haze of fatigue and felicitations, more than ready to soak up a few days of sunlight before tackling his country's lowering problems of recession and unemployment. Behind him was the most dramatic election landslide in Canada's history, a coast-to-coast sweep that carried Tory M.P.s into 208 of the House of Commons' 265 seats, and cut the combined opposition down to a hapless...
When Nathan Marsh Pusey took over the presidency of Harvard five years ago, he was a new broom that swept in religion. An even newer if considerably smaller broom is now trying to sweep some of it out again. Pusey and his emphasis on religion were being breezily challenged by a second-year graduate student in philosophy, William Warren Bartley III ('56). Vehicle of his attack: an 8,000-word Crimson article on Harvard's "button-down hair shirt...
While mastering his knowledge of the sea. Freuchen also found time to study the Arctic. The result was The Arctic Year, a month-by-month account of everything those white wastes have to offer. Nothing is missing-from January storms that sweep the landscape and uncover food for such delicate songbirds as Hornemann's redpoll, to the May migrations of barnacle geese coming home to lay their eggs. Attuned to the frigid, lonely rhythms of northern life. Freuchen filled the book with his affection for a land he loved all the more because civilized men with all their technology...
Antony gave the island to Cleopatra as a gift, and other conquerors would gladly have given a Cleopatra to get Cyprus. For the last 2,000 years, tidal waves of conquest have continued to sweep over the island's pebbled shores. Cyprus has been ruled by medieval Knights Templar, Venetians, Turks and British. By 1953, when Author Lawrence (Justine) Durrell (TIME, Aug. 26) arrived in Cyprus in search of a writer's low-cost retreat, the Greek Cypriots (four-fifths of the population) were scrawling their own historic handwriting on the village walls: "Enosis and only enosis" (union...