Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roads diverged in the yellow woods of Brown's cross country course, and it made all the difference in the women harriers' bid for a sweep at Saturday's trimeet in Providence, as Harvard finished well ahead of the Bruins, but lost narrowly...
...wolves come close enough to the house to be easily seen in the moonlight. Though she went off looking for permanence, Arthur discovers that she is a connoisseur of flux. The lake evokes her keenest descriptions: during a storm "the water was stirred every few minutes by a gigantic sweep like the slap of a hand." On a sunny day "the lake is ocean blue, throwing back the face of the sky and then catching it again...
...cahoots with then House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, once sicked 40 federal agents on Douglas in a misbegotten attempt to have the liberal Justice impeached. Even before Nixon, Douglas believed that the secret conference room of the Supreme Court was bugged. Chief Justice Earl Warren once had the FBI "sweep" the conference room, but Douglas remained suspicious, since he thought the FBI probably put the bugs there in the first place. And the feisty old jurist, who originally planned to retire from the Supreme Court in 1969, vowed to stay on until "the last hound dog had stopped snapping...
...none of this is news, it has rarely been so methodically worked over. Toland's main intent is to evoke the sweep of battle from the Chemin des Dames to the Marne, from Belleau Wood to the Argonne. He sometimes wrings from familiar historic horrors memorable touches of contrary humanity. What was it like to listen to 8,500 guns, a sound that no human ear had ever heard before? For Winston Churchill, who visited France to see the war firsthand, the crescendo rose "exactly as a pianist runs his hands across the keyboard from treble to bass...
...campaign and his campaign like a president. More dangerous are the roots of his present posture, a stance much different from that of four years ago, when he rode a wave of superficial optimism into office. Carter is practicing the politics of pessimism, needlessly, and his very negativism may sweep him out of the White House--his crisis of confidence supplanted by Ronald Reagan's crisis of overconfidence...