Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing realization that what once seemed a virtually limitless bounty has reached very real limits. Pressure is mounting to prune and reform the whole apparatus of welfare and redefine its purpose. The public mood behind it all is not unlike the surge of conservatism in the U.S. that helped sweep Ronald Reagan to the presidency...
Another surprise the Crimson hadn't counted on was sickness. McCurdy later called the meet "Harvard vs. Northeastern vs. The Bangkok Flu." With Felix Rippy and Eric Schuler sick, the expected sweep of the two-mile run was impossible. As it turned out, Buck Logan did net an impressive win in that competition with a 9:00.54, but again, nothing seemed to be enough Saturday...
...final two minutes of the game, the Crimson made a last ditch comeback effort and rushed the Bruins, forcing several turnovers, and with six seconds left Hurley scored again, putting the Crimson one goal away from a minor miracle. But a quick Brown sweep which lasted six seconds after the faceoff soon melted those hopes...
...Dixon, Davenport and all over, people avidly followed sports. Baseball was the game, Babe Ruth the hero-and one who alone would have made the year memorable: flamboyantly gesturing toward the centerfield bleachers where he intended to hit the home run that would, and did, help the Yankees sweep the Cubs in the World Series...
...sweep of postwar history, no event, no issue, no political or social process has more profoundly shaken the established world order, or brought about more rapid and tumultuous economic change, than the end of the era of cheap oil. This change has been called the energy crisis, but the term is too limiting. Rather than being merely an ongoing trauma over oil, the energy debacle has become a crisis of economics, of politics, of the very balance of power in world affairs. In short, it is an all-embracing, mesmerizing Everything Crisis...