Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge could honestly see any justification for favoring Yale over Harvard in their annual race at New London. And, indeed, the Crimson eight easily outrowed the Elis over a gruelling four-mile stretch of the Thames, while Harvard's jayvee, freshman, and combination crews made it a clean sweep. And Yale had already once defeated Wisconsin, winner of the national Poughkeepsie Regatta at Marietta, Q.E.D...
...record of an amateur football team by a hundred, and it adds up to a decline in Harvard athletics. That's the formula today.The Cambridge crew beat the Crimson by 1 1/2 lengths on the Charles last April, but the Harvard varsity eight came back to lead a clean sweep over Yale at the end of June...
...atomic sub," said one high-ranking Navy officer, "would make all surface craft obsolete." In war, a fleet of them could sweep the seas clean of enemy shipping, lie off enemy coastlines lobbing guided atomic missiles into his ports and industrial centers. The new sub also has an important defensive mission; nothing frightens a submarine commander more than the thought of another sub _ silently stalking him underwater. With its high speed and unlimited endurance, the atomic sub, say Navy submariners, can track down and kill enemy subs more efficiently than any other weapons in the Navy's arsenal...
...Dizzy had no such lack. When a Tory snooper collected evidence of an illicit love affair involving Whig Lord Palmerston, and wanted to expose it at the next election, Dizzy sensibly demurred. "Palmerston is now 70," he said. "If he could provide evidence of his potency . . . he'd sweep the country...
...Marshal Sir Basil Embry, D.S.O., is today commander in chief of Britain's Fighter Command. But in May 1940 he was a mere squadron leader, just notified of his promotion to group captain. Promptly he decided to lead his old squadron on a farewell sweep over northern France. An hour or so later, while the rest of the squadron headed home, Group Captain Embry, his plane shot to pieces, was "gently, blissfully" descending upon the German lines by parachute...