Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into 1968. As the Governors of 42 American states-21 Democrats, 21 Republicans-and 700 aides and journalists sailed off on an eight-day cruise to the Virgin Islands, it was not the wide blue Caribbean that absorbed their attention but the political waves back home that may well sweep a Republican President into the White House next year...
...sharp wind scatters the paper along Landsdowne Street behind Fenway Park. Once the street was a sea of fans, breaking against the left field wall, impatient to pour in and sweep the Sox to World Series victory. Now the Series is over, the waves subsided, the street dark and deserted...
Four plays later the Yardlings had to punt, but the Columbia return man rumbled when he was hit and Harvard took over at midfield. A sweep by half-back Herb Dreher and a burst up the middle by fullback Tom Miller brought the Crimson...
With the Cultural Revolution, Mao originally intended to sweep away the musty party machinery and replace it with a more revolutionary and popular-based organization. The nucleus of his new organization-a "grand alliance" of loyal government workers, military men and Red Guards-is well established in Pe king, Shanghai and five of China's 26 provinces and regions. But in other areas, the Cultural Revolution has only succeeded in breaking down local organization without supplanting it with any workable substitute...
...another common example, stopping an end sweep is more, than the responsibility of the end. The end's primary responsibility, in fact, is the off-tackle hole. On a sweep, he holds his position, the corner-back moves from the outside and is responsible for turning the play in, where pressure from the linebacker, tackle, end, and safety should combine to stop the play...