Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs, Bob Taft, backed by Wisconsin G.O.P. Boss Tom Coleman and National Committeeman Cyrus Philipp, was going to be a shoo-in over California's Governor Earl Warren and Harold Stassen. But after Ike Eisenhower's great day in next-door Minnesota, a slogan began to sweep across Wisconsin: "A vote for Warren is a vote for Eisenhower...
Oxford, entering the field for the first time, is expected to sweep all the other five entrants before it. But the Crimson should be able to hold its own against its old opponents, Yale, Dartmouth, M.I.T., and the Bermuda home teams...
Instead, Dwight Eisenhower, who was 3,500 miles away, who had neither spoken a word nor grasped a hand in support of his own candidacy, won a complete victory. The final count: Eisenhower 46,661; Taft 35,838. In the delegate contests, it was a clean sweep for Ike: 14-0. Said Taft: "I am somewhat disappointed...
There he sits, and there he may sit for four years more-a determinedly average man; humble before his responsibilities and anything but humble in the employment of his power; a storehouse of historical fact with little feeling for the sweep, drama and philosophy of history; a man quick to abuse who feels himself to be abused; a man whose good moral instincts cannot cope either with the sins of his old friends tempted by boodle or the softness of his new friends who have failed to build him a strong foreign policy...
...been having a terrible time with a similar embarrassment-a connection (TIME, March 17) with the Chinese tanker scandal. But when he sat down last week to be questioned by Senate investigators, he seemed determined to keep cool, smile, smile, smile, let superior reason (his) prevail, and thus sweep all before him. Result: he alternated between anger, self-pity, exaggerated politeness and flippancy...