Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...epee sweep was particularly gratifying to the Crimson as it was won without the aid of Al Gardner, first-ranked epee man, who fenced foil for this match. Bill Bennett, Jon Reckler, and Peter Piazza were the epee victors...
...domes of Moscow last week the leaders of 80-odd Communist parties from all over the world were apparently locked in titanic struggle. After two solid weeks of argument, the supreme junta of world Communism was still threshing out the grand party line. Either way, it still meant to sweep the world, but Mao Tse-tung was arguing for more militancy and bellicosity than Nikita Khrushchev thinks necessary...
...speed of foot and wit in a jungle of brute force. Although they may weigh 190 Ibs. or more, they are seldom risked in the crunch of line bucks against wrathful 260-lb. tackles. Instead, they whip downfield for passes, or take a pitchout in full stride to sweep around end. Given a yard or two of maneuvering room, they can break a game wide open by slithering, pirouetting, stutter-stepping and sprinting through a field of tacklers for the touchdowns that are the most exciting plays in football. Some top teams-notably the New York Giants and Green...
...three years ago publicly spoke up for Algerian independence, De Gaulle suspected that he could no longer count on Washington's tolerance. The only hope was to drive for some kind of end to the six-year-old bloodletting in Algeria before this sea of troubles could sweep down upon France. Abruptly, the steel-nerved general last week informed his Cabinet that he would submit his Algerian policy to a nationwide referendum in the first weeks...
...result was a landslide for the Liberal Democrats who won a whopping 22 of the 29 seats in the legislature-a gain of seven. In the sweep, the People's Party was all but wiped out; it lost four of its five seats in the last legislature and suffered the additional humiliation of seeing the voters reject Mme. Kamejiro Senaga, wife of the party's spellbinding boss. (The other six legislature seats went to the mildly leftist Socialist Masses Party and a conservative independent.) With uncommon political maturity, most Okinawans had clearly accepted Liberal Democrat...