Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some fashion models who had voted him No. I Leap Year Bachelor, and thus get his picture in the papers. As a self-avowed presidential candidate, he also hoped to rebroadcast a campaign promise-that he would take his "ole cornshuck mop and his ole suds bucket" and sweep up the Democratic Party...
...beak, Don Francesco majestically strides along under an immense faded green umbrella; its edges are much frayed by rubbing against the grey stone walls that lean over the narrow, cobbled streets. Shepherds, wrapped in lambskins, and black-shawled women bow low to let the priest's umbrella sweep over them as he sails by. "God be with you, Don Francesco," say the men. "God preserve you and us," say the women...
Calling Northside 777 on a hunch of his editor, James Stewart finds a woman who has worked years scrubbing floors to free her jailed, but honest, son. The human interest aspects of this set-up sweep Stewart off his feet and he splashes the Hard-earned Heartaches across Chicago, little believing the son (Conte) is really innocent. Persuaded to dig deeper and talk with the prisoner, Stewart gradually turns from a skeptical, feature-conscious reporter into a citizen grieved by a civic unjustice and turns lower-case handsprings to right the wrong. After pacing the Polish quarter and fondling...
...Save the Marshall Plan" rally will sweep into Sanders Theater this evening to climax a hasty but determined movement to influence Congressional action on the European Recovery Program. In a remarkably short time, the "Save ERP" campaign has spread to 35 colleges and universities in New England. Local committees have hustled out hundreds of letters, petitions, and telegrams to Congressmen, and in at least 20 of those schools, rallies similar to tonight's are planned...
...paying off. Before the week was out, Governor Charles M. Dale and Manchester's Joseph E. Geisel, an early Eisenhower organizer, had both come out for Dewey. Deweymen talked confidently of winning at least five of New Hampshire's eight convention delegates, hoped to make a clean sweep...