Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After ten years of decay, its shoreline is a sweep of greying yellow buildings. A few once posh hotels and restaurants remain open, but the epitaphs to their elegance and cuisine are written on the walls. "Under the revolutionary offensive, this establishment belongs to the people," reads a sign in a once privately owned shop. Loudspeakers shatter the soft night air, calling the faithful to a "solidarity with North Viet Nam" rally, while just a block away at Monseigneur Restaurant (steak: $15), harassed waiters try to evoke the old days by wrapping label-less bottles of beer in napkins. Transportation...
...pretty much over for the night. Not as big a bust as the night before, a bit bigger than the ones which would follow on the two nights afterwards. Frank promised that there would be a police sweep every night if it was necessary to enforce the curfew...
...wake of the second-round sweep, De Gaulle again questioned Pompidou about his plans. So confident was Pompidou that De Gaulle would insist on his staying on that he again mentioned his need for a rest. By July 1, Pompidou sensed a less friendly atmosphere at the Elysée. As one Minister put it: "There was that air, the chauffeurs and the ushers talk, you know, and then there were those dossiers being brought in"-a sign that De Gaulle was poring over secret personnel records of all possible candidates...
...Virginia (12). For Humphrey: Georgia (12), Louisiana (10), North Carolina (13-) and Tennessee (11)-But for a growing Negro vote, a deep-rooted Democratic tradition and the fact that most Wallace votes will be skin off Republican hides, Nixon might have been able to count on a clean sweep in Dixie. Georgia went for Barry Goldwater in 1964, but Wallace-not Nixon -will get a good share of those Republican votes this year. In addition, the growing number of Negro and white-moderate voters should provide harmony for Hubert. In Louisiana, a huge Wallace vote is expected to hurt Nixon...
...second-round sweep that embraced just about every area and social class in France, the Gaullists last week won 294 seats in the 487-seat Assembly. De Gaulle's party thus became the first in nearly 100 years to win an outright majority in that chamber. His major leftist rivals, the Communists and the Federation of the Democratic Socialist Left, lost more than half of the seats that they had held in the outgoing Assembly, ended up with a combined total of only 90 votes. Though many of the Gaullists were almost indecently gleeful about their victory, Premier Georges...