Word: sweep
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Buckley predicted that the contest would go "right down to the wire." He said he was "fighting a country-wide Democratic sweep...
Most of what is good in Gold takes place deep within the mines. Director Peter Hunt, who got his training editing many of the early James Bond movies and in 1969 directed On Her Majesty's Secret Service, has a talent for suspense and a knack for giving sweep to action in a confined space. The cave-in and subsequent rescue that begin Gold and the flood and desperate attempt to stop it that conclude the film are noisily entertaining...
...Rockies to the Pacific, the Democratic trend seems inexorable. In a recent poll in California, Democratic Senator Alan Cranston was 35 points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...
Harvard struck first halfway through the first quarter on a seven-yard sweep by Alky Tsitsos. The key play in the drive was a 34-yard pass from Milt Holt to McInally that brought the ball to the Big Green...
...Bruce Kilgore, chief architect of the Park Service's new policy, one of the parks in which natural fires would have done the most good is one where fires have been rigorously controlled: California's Sequoia National Park. There, if natural fires had been allowed to sweep through the area's firs while they were young, the trees would have burned without involving the great redwoods. But now the fir forest has grown so tall that the tops of the firs reach the Sequoias' lowest branches. Should a fire sweep through the firs, it would probably...