Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ahead by only four points at the last event, the high jump, the freshman track team scored a sweep to defeat Andover 60 to 48 at Andover Saturday. Burt Lieberman, Don Di Bona, and Cal Keap all cleared 5 feet 8 inches to give the Yardlings a three way tie for first in the high jump...
...blowing brass bands, the lofty pomp and the great sweep of social events never succeeded in drowning out. nor even interrupting, the central purpose of Saud's visit: high-stakes diplomacy...
...power of Coach-Edo Marion's team, two-deep this year for the first time, showed most strongly in sabre, where Mike Woolf, Peng-Sui Mei, and Don Tingle led the division to a clean sweep. Dave Silbert and Doug Runnels each took one bout...
...example, the highest vote (98.63%) was received by Professor Jerzy Bukowski, who had helped students organize a militia during the October crisis, while the lowest vote went to Central Committee Secretary Jerzy Albrecht, a Stalinist. On these terms, Party Secretary Gomulka has a mandate to make a clean sweep of Stalin ism and Stalinists. They had battled him during the campaign with clandestine leaflets, smears, whispers, and every other trick in the agitator's manual. They had pictured a pygmy Gomulka beside a huge Cardinal Wyszynski. Now it was time for a reckoning. But instead of rushing to make...
Other Arabs have known as much, and let unreasoning hatred of the "exploiters' sweep all reason before them. That Saud has not is a tribute to his own character and to the evolution of a businesslike arrangement as an alternative to colonialism's notorious evils. For the partnership between king and company has been based from the first on strict terms of U.S. noninterference in Saudi Arabia's domestic policies. The royalties Aramco pays provide 90% of the government's revenues. Without Aramco, Saudi Arabia would revert to a black-tent kingdom of camels, date palms...