Word: cleansweep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soundly trouncing Republican Harold Stassen. Dilworth energetically carried out the cleansweep urban renewal programs begun under Clark, made his own mark as an all-out liberal reformer...
...Humphrey. Mildly anti-Catholic ads were distributed to 350 Wisconsin weeklies (planted by the unofficial Square Deal for Humphrey Committee and promptly disowned by Humphrey). Nearing the end, Humphrey even lost his voice but rigorous throat sprays saved the day. Kennedy continued his cool campaigning, but the mid-campaign cleansweep predictions were revised, bets were hedged, and apprehension crept into the Kennedy camp in proportion to the rising confidence that seized Humphrey...
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