Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HUGH B. MITCHELL, 41, had served two years in the U.S. Senate as an appointee and protege of Washington's defeated Governor Mon Wallgren, but was beaten in the Republican sweep of 1946. A scholarly ex-newsman, his legislative passion is extension of public power projects...
...responsible for the sweep is a 35-year-old Mexican colonel, Humberto Mariles, who works at his job as systematically as any football coach. Born on a ranch and a seasoned charro (cowboy) by the time he was 13, Humberto was sent to a Mexico City military academy, where he got acquainted with the English saddle. At 17, he became a 2nd lieutenant of cavalry. Now he has his pick each year of 1,500 Mexican army horses and the 15 best of 15,000 army cavalrymen to put through his finishing school in horsemanship...
...Crimson is favored against Brown, M. I. T., and Yale, and, should it sweep them, will take a second in both the Ivy and New England Leagues...
Grabar and French Club President Vicas were wary of predicting what the future holds in French politics. "If De Gaulle could get a working majority with the Socialist and Radical Socialist parties, an unlikely situation," said Vicas, "he would call for a general election which undoubtedly would sweep him into power...
...working model is a low-slung, 25-ft.-long, electric-motored contraption which travels on caterpillar tracks. It has two horizontal rows of rotary steel drills which chew out the coal and sweep it on to a conveyor, which carries it over the tail of the machine into mine cars...