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Word: sweepingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cameras is equipped with an eagle-eye Questar lens, can scan the full sweep of a ski run from its aerie on a mountain top. Other miniature cameras are installed in skiers' helmets and on sleds to provide a kind of rumble-seat view of the courses. To coordinate the com plex operations of ABC's crew, which at 250 strong is more than twice the size of the U.S. Olympic team, the network maintains a command post that suggests that the invasion of Normandy is imminent. Day and night, the center dispatches the network's four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sportscasting: Olympian Operation | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...Lone Sweep...

Author: By Mark R. Rasmuson, | Title: Harvard Thinclads Defend Big Three Title Tomorrow | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Harvard may pick up its lone sweep in the shot, with mountainous Dick Benka. Ajootian, and Hedendal, but the paucity of Crimson high jumpers spells defeat in the event. Harvard has only Jim Coleman, whose best jump of the year is around 6'3". Yale has three 6'6" jumpers. Princeton's Richard Weisiger has gone...

Author: By Mark R. Rasmuson, | Title: Harvard Thinclads Defend Big Three Title Tomorrow | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

...Communists, as Westmoreland pointed out, showed "a callous disregard for human life," attacking hospitals as well as military compounds, using churches and schools as defense posts and captured civilians as shields. In the highland town of Ban Me Thuot, the Viet Cong killed six American missionaries in a sweep through a leprosarium operated by the Christian and Missionary Alliance, leaving their bodies wired with booby traps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: The General's Gamble | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

With the addition of 3-0 wins by Michel Scheinmann and Fernando Gonzalez and 3-1 victories by John Whitbeck, Fritz Hobbs, and Bruce Weigand, the Harvard sweep was complete...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Racquetmen Swamp Middies, 9-0, For Ninth Straight Win of Season | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

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