Word: sweep
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...decision to make the race in Crosby had been a bold gamble. Williams had lost her own Labor seat in Hertford and Stevenage in the Tory sweep of May 1979, and she needed desperately to get back into Parliament. But her daring choice of Crosby, a traditionally safe Tory seat, brought delegates at the party's first annual conference in October to their feet, cheering. Explained Williams confidently: "We have to take impossible risks." She promptly began to walk through every neighborhood and ring doorbells in every corner of the three-ward Crosby district, which has a population ranging...
Papandreou himself has hardly waxed enthusiastic about Greece's E.C. membership, which was engineered by President Constantine Caramanlis 9½ months before the Socialist sweep last October. Long before the election, Papandreou had expressed strong hostility toward the E.C., and has often called for a referendum on Greece's membership in the Community. At the same time, Papandreou has expressed opposition to some E.C. export quotas, demanding that Greece be accorded special status within the Community. When he objected to one E.C. regulation on agriculture at the London summit, Belgian Prime Minister Mark Eyskens interrupted him, asking, "Then...
...just about is. Reds is a big, smart movie, vastly ambitious and entertaining, full of belief in Reed and in the ability of a popular audience to respond to him. It combines the majestic sweep of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago-David Lean and Robert Bolt's mature and exhilarating epics-with the rueful comedy and historical fatalism of Citizen Kane. Resisting the megalomania that attends the making of blockbusters, Beatty plays it not safe but careful, stocking the movie with ingratiating motifs: Christmas trees, old songs, dogs, hats, chandeliers, white lilies, waiting taxis and one adorably solemn...
...addition, the Crimson has the potential to sweep the shotput in every meet. Senior co-captain Kim Johnson will be joined this year by two outstanding freshmen--Marie Acacia and Kathy Durante--and the trio could well outclass all of its competition. Acacia is the New York State indoor shotput champion, and Durante is an accomplished discus and shotput thrower in her own right...
...Harvard women's squash team's sweep of the Tufts top ten yesterday fueled its hopes that this year's squad may be able to unseat Princeton in the Ivy League championship...