Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...brush with a long handle, which can be used while a person is standing, is far more effective and less tiring. All over the world these standing brooms are used. Why then do we carry on with a primitive method which is inefficient and psychologically wrong? Bending down to sweep in this way encourages subservience in mind...
...Clean Sweep. In Richmond, Calif., after a night of tippling, seven vacuum-cleaner salesmen decided to stage a selling competition at 4:50 a.m., knocked on the door of John A. Penberthy, who dispersed them with three shots...
...gathered momentum, Modigliani began painting his delicately attenuated figures, and Italy's art moved on through Giorgio de Chirico's dream-like surrealism, the almost eerie quiet of Giorgio Morandi's still lifes, and finally into the boiling seas of abstract expressionism. To show the full sweep, the Museum of Modern Art lent 46 of its own works, went to 17 other U.S. museums and such private collectors as Joseph Pulitzer Jr., Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller III, Oveta Gulp Hobby, Henry Ford II. Before the show's sponsors were finished, they had gathered the works...
Palmer's comeback, giving him a 280 total, and the title by two strokes over Nicklaus, was the most spectacular ever staged in the Open. By winning, he earned $14,400, boosted his total winnings this year to $66,600, and became the heavy favorite to complete his sweep of golfing's major titles this summer-in the British Open and the P.G.A. championship...
...still has a good arm." Still a blur on the base paths despite his knee (he has stolen six bases in six tries this year), Mantle leads the majors in runs scored, with 51. Last week Mantle was red hot, led the Yanks to a four-game sweep of Chicago, their 13th victory in 15 games and a fight with Baltimore for first place...