Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things were no better for the Crimson in yesterday's nightcap. Lefty Steve Holland limited Harvard to just two singles as the Tigers completed their sweep...
...sweep of last week's Pennsylvania G.O.P. primary gave Bush enough delegates for the nomination. That prompted a belated congratulatory call from the Vice President's last remaining opponent, Pat Robertson. Although details must be worked out, Robertson will receive prime TV time at the convention in return for suspending his moribund campaign. Bush forces are planning several regional unity meetings in June to stroke supporters of the other Republican candidates flattened by the Bush juggernaut...
...boiled down to working together," saidthe vice president, who exiled the GOP oppositionwith a 16-state primary sweep on March...
...most critical moments in the 1988 campaign. Jackson could insist that being the first black on a national ticket is a historic milestone, one that he and his supporters have earned; it would be a bold stroke against the nation's greatest sin, one that could actually sweep the Democrats to victory by arousing the passions of social justice. Or he could say no, that he has never had the least desire to be Vice President and he is smart enough to realize that such a ticket would probably lose and thus cripple both his personal ambitions and his cause...
...Peggy Noonan. She is the hired poet of George Bush, trying to turn the inner impulses of the Vice President into words that soar. "Government is words," says Noonan. "Thoughts are reduced to paper for speeches which become policy. Poetry has everything to do with speeches -- cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep, a knowledge that words are magic, that words like children have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart...