Word: sweep
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eight: the most common shell in intercollegiate rowing. An eight has eight sweep oarsmen...
port: a starboard sweep rows with his or her left hand on the end of the oar handle...
Reese says he got his start in politics helping his college professor, M.G. "Bernie" Bernside, win a Huntington, W. Va., Congressional seat in 1954. Reese served on Bernside's staff in Washington until Bernside lost his seat to a Republican in the Eisenhower sweep of 1956. Returning to West Virginia, Reese says he became executive secretary of the Young Democrats while selling encyclopedias and insurance and running a restaurant to support himself. When Kennedy came to West Virginia, Reese got involved in his campaign...
...florists, for instance, may need ten to 20 pieces of paper per petal that has been treated with chemicals by their suppliers. OSHA official Frank White stoutly defends the HCS. But last week he conceded at a congressional hearing, "Perhaps we underestimated, as we sometimes do, the magnitude and sweep of this rule...
Still, the novel as a whole has neither the sweep nor the intensity of one by Marquez or Neruda. The plot cannot bear the burden of such complex language. While the best of Latin American fiction is often ambiguous, Allende's novel is too often simply confusing...