Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goulart almost three years ago, and Brazilians took their voting seriously. There were the usual murders in various election brawls. In some remote western areas, voters traveled 19 days in order to reach the nearest ballot box. As the votes came in last week, they pointed toward a resounding sweep for the government's ARENA Party...
Serious Spontaneity. Hals's spontaneity has appealed to modern artists. Van Gogh praised "his way of stating the subject right away at one sweep." Manet hailed Hals's ability "to set down, at the first stroke, what one sees." Even the U.S. abstract expressionists found justification for their pure play of paint in Hals's practice of working without preliminary drawings...
Harvard House football teams outplayed Yale 104 to 38 yesterday to sweep eight of their nine games -- four by shutouts...
Pulverized Prestige. Stunned by the G.O.P. showing, the Democrats reacted with initial incredulity. "I imagine it's a sort of standoff," said Democratic National Chairman John Bailey. Vice President Hubert Humphrey, his coattails shredded and his prestige pulverized by a near-total G.O.P. sweep in his home state of Minnesota, was more candid. "Misery loves company," he said...
...White House. Unless the Democrats or Republicans put up a sufficiently conservative presidential candidate in 1968, George told a nationwide television audience, "you can look for us to be in your state all the way from Maine to California." Ironically, the Wallace presence atop the party ticket helped sweep Democratic Senator John J. Sparkman, a liberal by Alabama standards and no admirer of the Georgeen gambit, to an unexpectedly easy win over Republican John Grenier, 36, who masterminded Goldwater's Southern sweep...