Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...goals of political action differ only slightly from those of social service. This election season's campaign for the middle class seems to have left out the most needy. Aside from suggestions such as those from Republican Patrick J. Buchanan to sweep streets clean of the homeless and lock them up in jails across the country, little mention is made of the very poor and hopeless...
When Kennedy ascended to the Presidency, his electoral victory was narrow and evidently depended somewhat on his impressive sweep of the crucial "dead people" vote. That was certainly no mandate on which to wind down the Cold War, especially for a candidate who campaigned by railing against a so-called missile gap that was the product of fevered anti-communist imaginations, and topped that off with a fire-eating inaugural speech about "a long twilight struggle" with the Russkies. He was, in short, exactly the kind of leader you would expect to get a lot of Americans up to their...
Coming off an extremely successful three-game road trip sweep, the team is hoping to skate the same way against considerably tougher opponents...
Harvard took seven of 10 events including a sweep of the 200-yard freestyle and the diving competition. The win was Harvard's third in four days...
...Wake Island and Guam but also against the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and the British colonies of Malaya, Burma and Hong Kong. The methodical Japanese had printed the currencies for their occupation of all these lands as early as the spring of 1941. And they conquered this vast sweep of territory so easily that the immediate worry was whether they would strike next at ill-defended Australia, ill-defended India or ill-defended Hawaii. Japan now ruled nearly one-seventh of the world, and one of its generals warned against a new kind of overconfidence: "victory disease...