Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Butler and his Conservatives so much as the designation: "Chancellor of the Continuing Boom." Britain's boom and its attendant pleasures-the highest standard of living ever, the end of all rationing, a 50% increase of production over prewar years-was the largest single reason for the Tory sweep in the May general elections. After six years of war and half a dozen more of stiff austerity, all this seemed too good to be true...
What happens next is known only in the innermost nuclear circles, if it is known there. Some outside guessers think that the reaction, once started, will be self-sustaining. The nuclear fire will sweep through the lithium deuteride like a flame through dry excelsior. Others believe that the reaction will have to be stimulated, continuously or intermittently, by energy from outside...
...complete an American sweep of the Wimbledon Singles titles, California's Louise Brough needed every trick in the book to outlast California's Beverly Baker Fleitz 7-5, 8-6. A Wimbledon winner in 1948, '49, and '50, Tennis Stylist Brough is now halfway to Helen Wills Moody Roark's Wimbledon record of eight championships...
...ebbing tide in Connecticut's Thames River, Yale's varsity eight held off a fine Harvard crew to win the oldest (since 1852) and longest (four miles) rowing competition in the U.S. On a two-mile course, Yale's freshman and jayvee crews completed a sweep of the river, first for the Elis since...
This year two sferics-detecting networks are operating experimentally out of Tinker Field and Kansas City. They have radars that watch for squall lines, which average 150 miles long, each containing 15 to 20 thunderstorms. As the line advances, the sferics detectors sweep from storm to storm, measuring the frequency of its radio waves. In a violent squall line, two or three of the storms may be of the type that can produce tornadoes...