Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...batwomen swept a doubleheader yesterday at Soldiers. Field, defeating Stonehill College in both ends of a twinbill by identical 4-3 scores. The sweep gave the Crimson a 9-2 slate and a team-record seven-game winning streak...
Moscow knew that if the reforms in Poland survived, a contagion of democracy could sweep through the satellites and finally threaten the Soviet Union itself. The Soviet leaders could not permit this to happen. In the Polish crisis, we were not seeing the collapse of the Soviet empire. Moscow's difficulties with the Poles were a sign of trouble and decay, but the situation was not irreversible. Solidarity could be snuffed out. There was never any question that the popular movement in Poland would be crushed by the U.S.S.R. The only questions were: When would this happen, and with...
...Hart camp hopes to regain some momentum this week by winning the Connecticut primary and adding 60 dele gates to his total. Mondale is not putting up much of a fight there, apparently conceding a sweep of New England to Hart. But the race could still be close: Connecticut has a large ethnic, blue-collar labor vote, and the Yumpies tend to be Republicans, who cannot cross over and vote in the Democratic primary. Hart's aides expect an upswing after New York, when the primaries become less bunched up. Says Adviser Pat Caddell: "We'll have more...
...presidency in eight years under Eisenhower, isolated Spiro Agnew as if he were a bacillus. In at least one White House meeting that I attended, President Johnson allotted the loquacious Hubert Humphrey five minutes in which to speak ("Five minutes, Hubert!"); then Johnson stood by, eyes fixed on the sweep-second hand of his watch, while Humphrey spoke, and when the Vice President went over the limit, pushed him, still talking, out of the room...
...risky for a viewer to sweep too many thematic generalizations into this dusty pile of celluloid. Indeed, a cynic would declare that the only thing this quintet has in common is Hitchcock's greed. The film maker always had an acute eye for commerce. He worked in an economically reliable genre with the industry's biggest stars. He would agree to dump a longtime collaborator like Composer Bernard Herrmann (who worked on eight Hitchcock films from 1955 to 1964) if the studio applied pressure. And when asked why he withheld these five films from theaters...