Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Impy's victory was a stunning blow to Boss Flynn, who had engineered Mayor O'Dwyer's resignation in the ill-founded hope that a special city election might stir up a big enough straight Democratic vote to sweep the whole state. Big Jim Farley, out of favor since Flynn got control, had backed Impy. The new mayor, who promptly announced that he was going to go back to being a Democrat, swore that he would stay "unbossed and uncontrolled" and be "mayor for all the people...
...myth for everyone except Dewey's closest advisers. If enough rural Republicans in northern New York stay away from the polls or refuse to vote for Dewey because of his "dictatorial" rule of the state, the governor may not have a large enough majority to overcome Lynch's Democratic sweep of New York City...
Spofford said that his first sweep of the Wonsan area ran into such heavy concentrations that "I could see we would never get in there." He ordered the three minesweepers of Mine Division 32 to turn back. "My formation is going in," replied Lieut. Commander Bruce Hyatt, commander of the division. Two of Hyatt's vessels promptly struck mines and went down with a loss...
...Funster's first tally came early is the second quarter. A 50 yard end sweep by Greg Simpson from his own 42 was followed by a line plunge by Fred Koch for the score. Koch missed the extra point. The other two scores came in the third quarter. Decoen took a long pass from Dick Kline on the seven and Slimp son carried the ball over. Kline's pass into the end zone for the point failed...
...Protection" for Parma. Britain's Somerset de Chair, onetime M.P. and officer in the Royal Horse Guards, has edited and organized the Napoleonic hodgepodge. Pruned of its grossest irrelevancies and chronologically reassembled, the Memoirs now sweep the reader in a hedgehopping rush from Author Napoleon's small start in Corsica to his triumph at Marengo (1800), then make a 15-year leap to his return from Elba and his downfall at Waterloo. Still lacking (because Napoleon never lived to write them) are accounts of his imperial heyday, his victories at Jena and Austerlitz, the disastrous Russian campaign...