Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...midst of Watergate the men around the former President used to talk about some kind of thunderclap that would sweep away the whole mess by the next dawn. They tried speeches, statements, overseas trips and transcripts. None of it worked...
Cleveland fared no better in New York. Bobby Murcer hit only his second Shea Stadium home run after he hit his first Saturday, to break a sixth-inning 1-1 deadlock and pace the red-hot Yanks to a sweep of the four-game series...
...have nine games left to catch the speeding Yankees and Orioles. The crucial games are in New York, with a twi-night double-header Tuesday and a single game Wednesday night. Even a Boston sweep in Shea might not bring them closer to Baltimore, which faces a relatively-easy eight-game finish against the Milwaukee Brewers and Detroit Tigers, the worst in the American League East...
...when President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing restricted credit by imposing high interest rates. Recognizing the hardship the measure inflicted on most Frenchmen, Giscard has urged his countrymen: "Do not give in to discouragement." Nonetheless, forecasts indicate that this winter widespread strikes and business failures could sweep France...
Died. Norman Eric Kirk, 51, thunder-voiced politician who ended the New Zealand Labor Party's twelve-year exile from power and became Prime Minister after a 1972 electoral sweep; of a heart attack; in Wellington. A onetime manual laborer...