Word: sweeper
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Joseph N. Sorrentino, chosen in a University-wide competition to give one of the English parts at the ceremony, said that, a gang fighter and the son of a street sweeper, he had flunked out of high school and taken a series of odd jobs from office boy to bleach factory worker...
...Sunday in the South, particularly in Georgia, where Sherman's march cut such a vast swath, a widespread (and individually selfish) safari of as many as 500 relic collectors can be found crisscrossing carefully over the once bloodied ground. Each wears earphones connected to a long-handled ground-sweeper disk, powered by transistor batteries, which transmits a constant hum through the earphones. Whenever it finds metal, there is a sudden crescendo to the hum, the signal to dig for an antique that may be anywhere from an inch to 6 ft. down, since little of any value is left...
...Austin spearheads Yale's tough defense. He plays a sweeper position, behind the three fullbacks, and will have to be avoided like Brown's Pat Migliore...
Irrational Behavior. Santa Ana-like phenomena are not confined to Southern California. Similar hot, dry wind sweeping down mountain slopes is called "foehn" (pronounced, approximately, fain) in Austria and Germany, "chinook" along the U.S. and Canadian Rockies, "sky sweeper" on Majorca, "khamsin" in Israel, and "the Canterbury northwester" in New Zealand...
Tufts didn't provide a real test for Harvard's new formation, but Tony Marks played like he was made for the sweeper position. Kyde's shift to center half has made him the Crimson's most valuable player, and he tallied on two penalty kicks in the third quarter on top of his first period assists...