Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shea, one of the distance runners on whom the United States will depend at the Olympic Games this summer, finished all by himself in the five-mile race. He was followed by two other teammates before Bob Grossman of Cornell broke up an Army sweep. James Effer finished in ninth spot to wind up the Cadet scoring...
...second period by Ted Briggs, Bucky Khan plunged three yards for Lowell's first score. Bob Lown swept around end for the extra point. With less than a minute to play, the Bellboys, trailing by 13 to 7, scored as Khan circled end on a 30-yard sweep for his second touchdown. Bruce White bucked through the middle for the game clinching extra point...
...giving any single, clear meaning. But the word "surrealist" shouldn't frighten you off. With no more than a New Yorker-level of knowledge of Freud, a little patience for modern music and art, and the least bit of initial curiosity, this quite amazing motion picture will soon sweep you up and carry you along in a swirl of color and sound without bewildering you hardly...
MacNamara and Sullivan are in danger of a split vote in their ward. Sullivan, however, is optimistic, predicting that the voters will sweep the CCA out of office, and put a majority of the independents in their places. Another candidate running as an independent is Christofer Carolina. He and Deguglielmo draw on the Italian vote, but for several elections, Carolina has failed...
From all over Asia-and from Russia-official guests journeyed to Peking to help China's Communists celebrate the second anniversary of their sweep to power. The first thing the guests learned about Chinese Marxism was that when it came to lodging and victualing them, at bowing favored guests to ringside tables and stashing the rest behind potted palms, the Chinese showed as much talent as the maître d'hôtel of any decadent capitalist nightclub. Guests were divided into five classes. Class A got Peking's luxurious Hotel Wagon-Lits. Class...