Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spent her last two months in San Joaquin General Hospital. When Vivian the first ominous stiffening in her ankles, followed by weakness and loss of balance, one sister had already died. She lived to see another sister and a brother die of complaints suggesting muscular dystrophy, which tends to sweep through whole families. A third sister had been in the hospital for two years; two others are disabled but still at home...
...taking a third in the 600 Mike Robertson showed that he, too, will be a great help to Coach Bill McCurdy's excellent group of middle distance men. Dave Alpers and Renny Little finished ahead of Robertson in the Crimson's sweep of this event. Both Little and Alpers are holdovers from last year's record-breaking mile relay team...
Captain Bob Rittenburg's seconds in the high hurdles, broad jump, and high jump against B.U. seem to indicate that he and Joel Cohen should sweep the hurdles and dashes...
...recent months Dulles has gained new confidence that he has found the right words and phrases. His reports to the people, e.g., his report on the Paris Conference at a televised Cabinet meeting, have been remarkable for their sweep and clarity. Dulles considers such reports a key part of his job for one large reason: he believes that the citizens of the U.S. have the right and the ability to understand his business...
...station exists to track Soviet raiders, if ever they come, and to guide by voice radio the U.S. interceptors scrambling skyward to give battle. In the windowless operations building, manned in shifts around the clock, two of several installed radar sets ceaselessly sweep the sky. Every passing plane is plotted, immediately reported to direction center "Carrot," which has to answer the insistent question: Is it the enemy...