Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just as ham-fisted hoodlums are about to ignite the subpoenaed accounts of a corrupt union, federal agents burst in, guns drawn. Then, with split-second timing, other teams of FBI men miles away sweep up crooked businessmen, racketeers and a tainted state investigator. One key arrest comes after a manic broken-field chase through the pushcarts and costermongers of New York's Fulton Fish Market. The villain is nabbed just in time to save the life of an undercover agent whose fake identity has been blown...
...says some professors have "quit and gotten jobs driving buses" rather than work for the Pentagon. Driving buses--even in Massachusetts, where the Carmen's union makes comfortable men of busdrivers--is no occupation to choose. After the last run, you've got to break out the broom and sweep the bus; all you do all day is drive back and forth, up and down Cambridge Street or Mass Ave. It doesn't require a lot of brains, which is why few professors will ever take it up. But there are other jobs, and there is this thought--better...
Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles started out making them in this Series, and that is largely how New York jumped off with two quick wins. Jackson, "Mr. October," dropped out of the starting lineup when he went lame early in the playoff sweep against Oakland, and Nettles came on with both bat and glove. Then he too was sidelined. October stars were falling like leaves. When the Series opened, it looked as if the man with the magic might be Bob Watson, 35, a fine but little-heralded player with losing teams for many years. Watson hit a three...
Walter Jackson Bate'39, University Professor, concurred, saying one of Levin's main contributions was to appoint professors with "breadth and range" and "a broad sweep in the humanities...
Harrington said the conventional Democratic Party analysis of the 1980 Republican electoral sweep--which emphasizes more effective use of computers and electoral tactics--ignores the necessity to address the real issues presented by reform-oriented groups within the party...