Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Candidate Eisenhower took a final thrust at the Administration on its unmentionable issue: "The one-the only -way to win World War III is to prevent it ... We can effectively discourage any further dangerous moves of Communist-planned aggression . . . Let's sweep this country with such a wave of resolve, determination and action that the little men, the defeatists, the false prophets of the false doctrine that it can't be done, will be tossed out of power and the real America given a chance to move...
...Middle East) is not simply a matter of passing laws against sin. Corruption is not only the result of greediness among the rich; to millions, it is almost a way of life, prompted by insecurity, hopelessness, and fear of what tomorrow may bring-or take away. To sweep out corruption, as he has promised, Naguib will have to break the stubborn power of the landowning pashas, who are fighting him every inch of the way; he will also have to rebuild Egyptian society from the bottom up. The question is whether he has the skill...
...denunciations, his personal credo rings clear: "Improve your standards; clean out the muck; cut out the cant!" And when he says, for once in simple seriousness, that "good seed is seldom sown in vain," musicians, the world over, can only wish him better soil and an even bigger sweep...
...best springboard diver is a carrot-topped, 21-year-old University of Texas senior named David ("Skippy") Browning. Skippy has won four Amateur Athletic Union National Indoor diving titles and four National Collegiate Indoor titles, and in Helsinki this summer he led the U.S. to a 1-2-3 sweep of Olympic springboard diving (TIME...
...Newark's Hays Park East pool last week, Skippy had one item of unfinished business to take up: the A.A.U.'s National Outdoor championship. Browning won this title in 1949, but he was a runner-up the next two years. To complete his unparalleled one-man sweep, he had to retake...