Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pragmatic, conservative man for all sessions during his 18 years in the Senate. Can such a candidate project a vision of the country's future that will satisfy both the distrustful right-wing ideologues he needs to win the Republican nomination and the more moderate voters whose support could sweep him into the White House...
This tension between the broad sweep of history and the minutiae perceived by individuals caught in its rush keeps Persian Nights holding steady, well above the level of conventional romance. In lesser hands, the novel could easily have been called something like A Doctor's Wayward Wife in Iran, and been far more marketable in the bargain. But Johnson, 52, an English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a collaborator with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of The Shining, has found a middle ground between sensationalism and high seriousness. Chloe Fowler's good intentions provide a fascinating vantage...
...direction," Louw says, "the politicians will have no choice but to get out in front of it." Even if it does not turn out precisely that way, the authors' solution and their readers' eager response to it demonstrate that not all South Africans are waiting numbly for chaos to sweep away the past and dictate the future...
...lead in games silenced the crowd of 40 spectators for the first several points of the third game, but Harvard avoided a straight-sets sweep...
NICOSIA, Cyprus--Iranian officials said yesterday that the U.S. envoys who visited Tehran last year claimed that 36 Soviet divisions were massed near the Caspian Sea, ready to sweep south across the border into Iran...