Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autonomy of Maxence (Jacques Perrin), an artist searching for Catherine Deneuve; most unusual, friendly M. Dutrouz turns out to be a psychotic killer who has sliced his beloved into sections of varying shapes and sizes and stuffed her into a trunk. But even these mystifying inclusions cannot destroy the sweep of Demy's happy rhapsody (as he well knows), and only comment on the tenacity of romantic loves and the indestructible wonder of those who abandon themselves...
Harriman's public history is, with only a few gaps, parallel to and part of the sweep of U.S. foreign policy since the eve of World War II. Son of Railroad Baron E. H. Harriman (Union Pacific), whom Teddy Roosevelt castigated as one of the "malefactors of great wealth," William Averell Harriman has been a Secretary of Commerce (under Harry Truman), Governor of New York (Nelson Rockefeller unseated him in 1958), ambassador to Moscow during the war and to the Court of St. James's afterward. Of the major World War II conferences, he missed only Quebec...
...could lead a Yale sweep unless Harvard's Jim Coleman can break into the high jump standings and Bob Galliers can place in the broad and triple jump...
...yard sprints, Yale will go with Rich Anderson and Adolph F. Jones. There is a possibility that they will also bring down last year's outstanding meet performer Mark Young from the 440-yard run to help them carry their hopes for a sweep...
Tuesday's sweep in field events gave Harvard a 421/2 point edge going into today's events and coach Bill McCurdy was obviously saving his strength for the Yale meet on Saturday...