Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks before the running, the odds were on the Russians to sweep the field in Belgium's first postwar revival of its violin international-the Concours Eugène Ysaÿe, this year renamed for Queen Mother Elisabeth. There was a notable precedent : brilliant Soviet Violinist David Oistrakh (TIME, Aug. 2, 1948) won the grand prize in the first contest in 1937. Moreover, the simple fact that the Russians entered meant that they were confident their violinists were good enough...
...color TV (TIME, Dec. 4). In upholding the approval given to CBS color last October by the FCC, the court rejected RCA's charge that the FCC was "arbitrary and capricious" in rejecting RCA's own color system. Crowed CBS President Frank Stanton: "Color television will sweep the country just as fast as sets can be produced...
...allies threw the book at the attacking enemy-the book of everything learned in eleven months of fighting Communists in Korea. U.N. artillery was zeroed in on the avenues of enemy advance; machine guns were placed to sweep points at which the Reds would be stopped or slowed by the wire. Searchlights and parachute flares lit up the night fighting. U.N. planes hit the Reds with the heaviest night air attacks of the war. The night raiders included 6-293 dropping 500-lb. fragmentation bombs with proximity fuses to produce air bursts. The bombers used a new radar technique which...
...desert Tularosa Basin in southern New Mexico is a valley without a river. Fierce winds sweep across it, and dust devils whirl in the sun. On most days the valley is quiet, with only a scattered coming & going of military vehicles from White Sands Proving Ground (Army Ordnance) or Holloman Air Force Base. But sometimes a screaming roar echoes among the mountains, and a monstrous bird with a tail of flame flies straight into the sky. Or a slender, dartlike object slips out of the belly of a B-29 and streaks over the horizon at several times the speed...
...Navy's crews (varsity, j.v. and plebe), the Maxwell Stevenson Cup, in a clean sweep over Cornell and Columbia; at Annapolis...