Word: swept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...greatest battle in the history of naval warfare, which destroyed the Japanese fleet and swept clear the sea roads to the Philippines and Tokyo, raged across 500,000 square miles of churned and bloodied Western Pacific Ocean 15 years ago this week. This was the Battle for Leyte Gulf, which pitted the U.S. fleets supporting General Douglas MacArthur's landings on the island of Leyte against all the naval might that the crumbling Japanese Empire could salvage for a desperate last stand...
...lock on the inner door. That done, three more of the gang got out and went into the store with him, while a fifth accomplice put a new padlock on the gate to allay the suspicions of any passing policemen. Inside, the four men forced a safe and swept up a peck of rings, bracelets, watches and necklaces, worth over $110,000. But the night had just begun: in the safe the crooks also found keys to the Goldsmiths' & Silversmiths' branch store in Burlington Arcade a few blocks away...
There is no doubt that there were several Communist party members and fellow travellers among the twenty-four, but most were simply swept up by the energy of the European student groups. Most were unaware of the Russian Communist plot to create the organization, then subvert it and turn it into a front for Communist propaganda. The existence of that plot was confirmed several years later by a man who had been working with Allied intelligence in Austria. He told an NSA national officer that he had found out plans of the Communist group, which urged the formation...
...Brown swept five of the first six places in its convincing demonstration of strength and depth...
...mattered not at all that the two clubs seemed ragamuffin upstarts compared to the great teams of the past, that to less prejudiced observers the White Sox were largely a team of castoffs, the Dodgers an unlikely combination of fading veterans and unseasoned kids who had somehow swept the two-game pennant playoffs from the National League champion Milwaukee Braves...