Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abourezk chose not to run for re-election as a South Dakota Senator and is a lawyer who represents, among other clients, the new government of Iran. Illinois Senator Adlai Stevenson III will retire next year; he talks vaguely of campaigning for the presidency as an independent, hoping to sweep away the "minutiae" that hog-tie Washington...
...most advanced electronic computers, America's top military and civilian space scientists could not predict even roughly where Skylab would fall. Until the final hours, they could narrow the area of eventual impact only to a vast global band between 50° north latitude and 50° south latitude?a sweep of about 109 million sq. mi., or nearly 56% of the earth's area. Conceded Hal Sierra, one of the technicians monitoring Skylab's death throes from the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center near Houston: "We're balancing on a knife edge?but we're not sure where the knife...
...Khomeini wrote to then Premier Asadollah Alam: "My heart is ready for the bayonet of your troops. I shall never keep quiet " By the spring of 1963, Khomeini was preaching to crowds of 100,000 in Qum, telling them that only "a flick of the finger" was necessary to sweep the Shah away...
...bring out its first digital record next month, Ry Cooder's lively excursion into rhythm and blues, Bop Till You Drop. Warner is thus the first major American record company to release a nonclassical digital album, one that proves digital will make everything sound better, whether it has sweep or whether it has soul...
Right now Baryshnikov sees the A.B.T. not as a stage to sweep but as "a beautiful Tiffany lamp, made from many wonderful pieces of glass. What...