Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...barring acts of God or a radical sweep of city elections, the transformation of Harvard Square is unstoppable. Whether the class of '72 spends its fifth reunion in a honky-tonk tourist trap, or a thriving, accessible, commercially diverse Harvard Square, will be known--soon...
...University of California has won three. Navy, Yale and Vesper B. C. have each won twice. Until recently, it had become almost a casual thing. An American victory in the eight-oared race was as expected as an American victory in the 400-meter run, or a U. S. sweep in the freestyle sprints...
Even on a personal level, no one has ever heard you rhapsodize about the conceptual sweep of Japanese leaders the way you have done in the case of Chou Enlai. They do indeed tend to be rather bland men, practical and often frustratingly didactic. But it is still impressive how far they have moved their nation in the past two decades...
...major bridges down, and its main harbors mined and closed to all shipping. The North Vietnamese have boasted that the mines are being cleared from Haiphong, but U.S. officials insist that this is impossible. The North Vietnamese lack the sophisticated locator and detonation equipment that is needed to sweep the mines. Even for the Russians, whose fleets include over 350 minesweepers, it would be an extremely hazardous operation...
...point proposal" in January, Nixon got the South Vietnamese President to agree to resign in advance of any internationally supervised election. Apart from that, Thieu might be forced to resign in humiliation if the former imperial capital of Hué were to fall or if the NVA were to sweep through the Mekong Delta...