Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quest of a pennant-clinching sweep, the Sox will probably send Reggie Cleveland to the mound tonight, followed by Luis Tiant tomorrow night, Dick Pole Saturday afternoon and Rick Wise on Sunday...
...characteristic of Scott that he stages this violent scene without showing the great sweep of the plains and with no view of the exterior of the train, the mob, the blood, the bodies or the long knives. Instead, he shows the interior of the dark and shuttered first-class compartment, where the English huddle with their baggage, not understanding why the train has stopped or the reason for the tiresome shouting and banging outside. When the young Moslem leaves the compartment to go to his death, most of the British have no clear idea of what this dusky intruder...
Then an acquaintance suggested that Leventhal try a nearby field that was lying fallow. After bicycling to the site, Leventhal began to sweep the area with his detector. Soon the beep-beep in his earphones changed to a wail. Leventhal unsheathed his 8-in. scout knife, dug through the dry soil and unearthed a peculiarly shaped cylinder that he thought was just "another sewer pipe." Then the detector sounded off for another hit. More knife digging, and Leventhal was suddenly staring at what seemed to be curls on the back of a bronze head. He dug out the head, wrapped...
...dribblings of paint, the lines fuse into a seamless fabric when played together. The sound is not thoroughly blended or homogenized like that of a Romantic string quartet, but there is a dramatic movement which, like the individual drops of water which merge to create a wave, can sweep a listener along...
...mostly male--watching television. It may be remembered that November 5 was a Tuesday night, election night. We had been waiting for days, some of us for years, for what was about to happen. The media wizards were unanimous in their predictions of a New New Deal, a Democratic sweep that would destroy the Republican party, repudiate its principles, and finally bring justice to its leaders. Their predictions, of course, suggested the ominous possibility precisely the opposite taking place, but if the handwriting were ever on the wall, this seemed like the night...