Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another U.S. sweep of the Nobel Prizes in the sciences...
...courts have done just that--often explicitly defending those infringement of students' constitutional rights. In schools in Broward county, Fla., administrators now greet students by painting "Lockers are subject to search" in the hallways. As the rising tide of cries for tighter discipline roll across the country, they often sweep student rights back past the proverbial schoolhouse gate...
King's chances of becoming mayor, however, are not good, even though he is a far more articulate, rousing speaker than Flynn. To win he would need to sweep the black vote again and pick up at least 30% of the city's white vote, which is 12% more than Harold Washington took when he won the mayoral race in Chicago. Flynn, meanwhile, is expected to attract the bulk of Finnegan's votes as well as maintain his overwhelming support among fellow working-class Irish Americans in neighborhoods like his South Boston home district...
Question: Will Trivial Pursuit sweep America in the 1980s...
...galloped his steed up the front steps onto the porch (of a house which Miss Ayer was visiting at the time), jumped off, bowed deeply with a sweep of his hat, and at Beatrice's feet asked her hand in marriage...