Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years have shaped our foreign policy towards Asia, it was just the Mickey Finn the bartender ordered. For millions of other folk who do not read TIME but will be informed by those who do, I hope it is the political prelude to a deluge which will sweep these sub-mediocrities from office come 1952. That is, if we Americans are still around by then...
British Painter Graham Sutherland divides his time and affections between the green downs of Kent and the blue sweep of the Riviera. His paintings have the neatness of one and the brightness of the other. For all that, no one would describe wan, sociable Graham Sutherland's pictures as "nice." He paints twisted roots, withered brambles and bits of sea wrack in a way that makes them look like people in torment...
...opera, using the audience for chorus. While the cast rehearses in "the school auditorium," Musical Director Norman Del Mar flirtatiously coaches the onlookers through various songs-one of which turns the audience into owls, chaffinches and turtledoves. After that, the opera itself-a period tale about a chimney sweep-is performed...
Extra-sensitive equipment was necessary, and the radio astronomers had to wait for still, rainless nights, though radio reception from the stars is not ordinarily affected by the weather. Six times they allowed the rotation of the earth to sweep the telescope past the nebula. Each time they moved the mast slightly to cover a different strip of sky. In the four middle sweeps they found what they were looking for: low peaks in the curves representing radio energy reaching the telescope. Careful analysis of the curves showed that the waves must have come from an oval object like...
...varsity squash team routed Dartmouth here Saturday, 11-0, winning 33 games to the losers' 4. It was the second straight sweep for the Crimson, which blanked McGill last Friday, 7-0. The freshman team also won, downing St. Paul's School, 4-1, on the losers' courts...