Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor Sir John Harding flew back to London to confer with the Eden government last week, his security forces announced the capture of 17 E.O.K.A. terrorists in a mountain sweep. The announcement was timed to support Sir John's report that the tough policy on Cyprus is starting to pay off. With sharp, soldierly precision, Harding told a closed-door meeting of 300 M.P.s at Westminster how it works: only when terrorism is stamped out will the "fertile vacuum" be created in which new, moderate Cypriot leaders will emerge...
There was little reason to believe that Rhee would not repeat, or even better, his sweep of previous years. His chief rival, Democratic Party Candidate Patrick Henry Shinicky (Shin Ikhi), had died while campaigning (TIME, May 14). His only other challenger, ex-Communist Cho Bong Am, had gone into hiding, claiming to have received threats of assassination. Of six candidates for the vice presidency, all had professed support of Rhee except John M. Chang, Shinicky's running mate. Rhee had confidently given his official backing to Lee Ki Poong, speaker of the National Assembly...
Added to Lyndon Johnson's clean sweep in Texas last fortnight (TIME, May 14), Collins' primary victory suggested a new fact for the rest of the South and the U.S.: the tone of moderation, drowned out of late in Deep-South Alabama and Georgia, still has its charms in the prospering Southern periphery...
...Hurley unleashed his best toss of the season in the javelin to place second, preventing an incipient Yale sweep...
Yale, expected to sweep the broad jump, took only first, as the varsity's Art Mayo placed second, and Warren Plath third...