Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic presidential ticket sweep of the state helped dovish congressman Peter N. Kyros win handily over Republican challenger Horace A. Hildrath. Both candidates favored a bombing halt but Hildrath conditioned it. In the second district Democratic incumbent William D. Hathaway appeared to have won a tight race with State Representative Elden H. Shute. Shute's main charge was against Hathaway's "ultra liberal record...
...riots, which shook the Gaullist monolith and weakened the franc; the Shrivers deplaned as students were battling police by night in the Latin Quarter. As the pro-De Gaulle newspaper Paris-Presse observed, "M. Shriver started from scratch at a time when France was making a clean sweep of the past." The assassination of Robert Kennedy evoked French sympathy for his sister Eunice Shriver. Finally, the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia abruptly ended De Gaulle's cultivation of diplomatic openings to the East. France is looking elsewhere for friends, Charles de Gaulle seems to have rediscovered the U.S., and Shriver...
Then he asked me if he had any support at Harvard. I searched about for something to say, and remembered that some of my friends had distributed an idiotically hyperbolic pamphlet at the Wallace Rally in Boston, in which they urged the voters to sweep Wallace "to the White House and beyond," so I said, "Well, there is one small group which distributed a pamphlet for you at your rally in Boston last week..." and Wallace nodded gravely and said...
Nixon's "probable victory," he wrote, "is likely to sweep into office many Congressmen and some Senators far to his own right... The greater the margin of Humphrey's defeat, the more the right will feel...
...helped onto a bus bound for the stadium from the Olympic Village, Evans recovered, won his race and shattered the world record with a clocking of 43.8 sec. Behind him came two other U.S. blacks-Larry James and Ron Freeman-to give the U.S. its first sweep of the games...