Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vice President Walter Mondale suffered a stunning slap in the face in his native state of Minnesota, which has long been considered a liberal stronghold. There, amid the fractious squabbling of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, the G.O.P. scored a major sweep. Despite numerous visits and pep talks by Mondale, despite two trips to the state by the President, the voters turned the Democrats out of the governorship and both Senate seats. In a rueful postmortem, a shellshocked Mondale concluded: "I shouldn't have told them to do it for Hubert Humphrey and me, but to do it for themselves...
...this year, without Humphrey's personal buoyancy to keep its diverse elements happy, the D.F.L. let its natural factionalism run wild and handed the G.O.P. its sweetest sweep anywhere in last week's election. Republicans seized both of Minnesota's seats in the U.S. Senate, took over the Governor's mansion and loosened the D.F.L.'s grip on the state legislature by gaining a tie in its lower chamber...
...speech was unprecedented for Iran's proud autocrat. It reminded some history-conscious observers of the last days of Imperial Russia's Czar Nicholas II in 1917, or France's King Louis XVI trying to stem the revolutionary fervor that was eventually to sweep him from his throne in 1792. In a televised address to his rebellious country, the Shah announced that he was placing strife-and strike-torn Iran under temporary military rule. Simultaneously, however, he pledged to meet virtually all the demands of his regime's opposition?all, that is, except for his own abdication from the Peacock...
...collaborators and targeted for assassination by Palestinian terrorists. Still, there have been some breaks in the political impasse. Last week an estimated 8,500 East Jerusalem Arabs risked reprisals to vote in municipal elections. Their unexpectedly large participation (only about 3,500 went to the polls in 1973) helped sweep Kollek back into office for a fourth term as mayor by a smashing 5-to-1 margin over his principal opponent...
...scoring position," St. Louis says, explaining her spot at the head of the diamond-shaped attack leaves her in front of the goal just waiting for loose balls she can sweep up and kick into...