Word: sweep
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...WITHDRAWAL OF Senator Walter Mondale (D-Minn.) last week from the Democratic presidential sweep-stakes is one of the few welcome political developments of recent years. Mondale's realization that there's no conceivable reason why anyone should have wanted him to be president speaks highly for his political judgment, although the complete lack of substance of his abortive campaign unfortunately suggests that it is selectively applied...
From sea to shining sea, the map dotted with the diverse domes of the nation's statehouses reflected a disaster for the Republicans. The Democrats scored a net gain of at least four governorships, raising their total to 36,* their highest tally since 1936. In their sweep, the Democrats captured eight of the nation's ten most populous states, including the twin coastal bastions of New York and California, and came close to winning Ohio and Michigan. Next year 73% of all Americans will have Democrats as their Governors...
...rich fields of India's Rejasthan state, where the monsoon rains usually sweep in faithfully each summer, the rice crop has been devastated by the first drought in years. Eastward on the Indian subcontinent, great floods have ruined the Bangladesh harvest. Far off in Africa's Sahel region, six years of drought have only recently been interrupted by rain. In the U.S., both the corn and soybean crops will fall far below expectations this year because of a freakish succession of excess spring rains, summer drought and early fall frost...
With a first and goal at the one, Tiger quarterback Ron Beible called a Snickenberger sweep to the right side. But Crimson adjuster John Clarke broke in to the Tiger backfield, and nailed Snickenberger for a four-yard loss at the five...
Democrat Michael S. Dukakis defeated Republican Governor Francis W. Sargent in a landslide victory that led a total Democratic sweep of Massachusetts' statewide offices...