Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard team made a clean sweep in the heavies, led by Pete Stanley, a junior who managed to wrestle only once last season. He crushed his opponent 8 to 0; and Dan Leary, a senior newcomer to Crimson competition, made the only pin of the meet in the second round. Leary's showing in the 177-pound class makes him a man to watch later in the season...
Beneath this wide sweep of policy was a bedrock Administration decision to make the sound dollar the basis for the U.S. economic system, and to make a sound U.S. economic system the keystone of a free-world economic policy based on growing prosperity through freer trade. The drive was the President's own. But the man behind the drive was a tall (6 ft. 2 in.), mild-mannered Texan with a lingering touch of the prairies in his soft twang: Robert Bernerd Anderson, 49, Secretary of the Treasury and the strong man of Dwight Eisenhower's Cabinet...
...Crimson made its first six points a few minutes after the beginning of the game. After a pass interception by Tom Boone had given Harvard possession of the ball, Damis ran a five-yard sweep around the Quaker right end to score a touchdown. The rest of the first quarter was marred by fumbles by each team as they struggled on the muddy field...
...Brien Inman was the son of the prominent portraitist Henry Inman. Oddly enough, he himself never made much of a reputation. But his Moonlight Skating in Central Park is pure champagne: chill, sparkling, heady. And like the others in the exhibition, his picture helps fill in the panoramic sweep of history with specific detail, showing just how things were in a time before the camera became ubiquitous...
...power behind Southern Cal's surge to the top is an oldfashioned, rib-rattling line that clears the way for T-formation backs. On the basic power sweep to the right, glowering End Marlin McKeever cuts down the tackle, and glowering Guard Mike pulls out to lead the interference. "Maybe they'll stop it the first time," says Coach Don Clark. "Maybe the second and the third. But sooner or later they make a mistake-and you just watch...