Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mikkola predicted a clean sweep in the 600 yard run for the Yardlings, with McGrath and Grutzner almost certain to take first and second in the event...
...Barrister Manley, with whom Busta had split a decade ago, was seriously threatening both his unions and the Labor Party. Bustamante's unions had sagged from 75,000 to 45,000 members. Manley's anti-Communist People's National Party was openly boasting that it would sweep Busta out of office in next year's elections, and Manley himself seemed to rate high with the British Labor government's Colonial Office...
...team's record shows nine out of ten wins for the first squad and a complete sweep by the second...
...that their longing for peace is so strong as to upset reason and good sense. Their thirst for peace blinds them to the fact that the only way to peace is a stony road which involves constant risk of war. If a popular peace movement should really sweep the world, then peace might be at hand. But no popular movement can penetrate the Soviet fortress...
...with new industries, gave new leaven to old ones. The television industry, which had optimistically hoped to make 600,000 sets, proved a bad guesser; it turned out 800,000, by year's end it was working at a 2,000,000-a-year clip. In its revolutionary sweep, television scared the wits out of radio (radio set production dropped 24% under 1947) and Hollywood (which hastily decided to join rather than try to beat the enemy). It promised industry an entirely new technique in remote control in plants (in New York, a supervisor in a power plant kept...