Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Alley, some of the best young white producers and writers were turning out new song material for all-black groups like the Shi-relies, the Drifters and the Cookies. The results were fascinating: though R. and B. lost some of its ethnic honesty, it still had considerable emotional sweep, plus a new sophistication...
Denied the right to publish his powerful new work in the Soviet Union, Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn allowed it to be issued in Paris two weeks ago (TIME, June 21). Already August 1914 has been acclaimed by its early readers for its epic sweep, for the religious themes that echo through it and for its superb battle scenes; some, in fact, have called it Solzhenitsyn's War and Peace...
...base of support for larger designs. The left deliberately sought to create a crisis for the government, and it seems likely that neither the left nor the government really knew what would happen once the crisis had been set. Thus the thousands of troops on call, and the preventative sweep by police at the campsite in West Potomac Park, and the mass arrests on Monday of anyone who might have become a participant in a developing crisis confrontation...
...Washington, at least in part, to show our strength, and we must recognize that at best it is potential rather than actual strength. The case with which the police were able to sweep the camp Sunday and secure the city Tuesday, and the inability or unwillingness-however sensible that might be-of the demonstrators to devise tactics that would shut down the city, amounts to a restatement on a higher level of struggle the powerlessness to end the war or effect social change that characterized the previous level...
...modern era. Pitcher Jack Hittson was 9-0, a Princeton record, and Huard hit five home runs, also a record. Both are seniors who've been on the team all three years that Princeton has been shafted. Harvard certainly didn't play great baseball May 8, but the Tigers' sweep must indicate something; no other team beat the Crimson twice...