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Word: sweepingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stumbled again as Jimmy Key pitched a two-hitter and the Blue Jays parlayed catcher Rich Gedman's error into an unearned run in the eighth inning and a three-game sweep. Bruce Hurst lost despite a five-hitter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jays Blank Sox, 1-0, But Magic No. Shrinks | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

...Blue Jays, eliminated Sunday, won all seven games at Fenway Park this season and went 11-2 against the Red Sox overall. Toronto has won nine straight in Boston since last year and became the first team to sweep the Red Sox at Fenway Park in a season since the Yankees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jays Blank Sox, 1-0, But Magic No. Shrinks | 9/29/1988 | See Source »

Today, the Sox are four-and-a-half games in front of the Yanks and travel to the Bronx tonight for a three-game series at Yankee Stadium. A sweep for the Yankees would make the race a virtual tie. The Yankees would be only one game down in the loss column, and with a week left...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Beware the Ghosts of Fenway | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

...marijuana in The Viper's Drag. Woodard, too little used, nonetheless glows in Keepin' Out of Mischief Now, while McQueen is at her best in Squeeze Me and the bawdy Find Out What They Like. Carter demonstrates why her name is alone above the title in a bravura sweep from the campy love play of Honeysuckle Rose to the patter of the wartime Cash for Your Trash to a contemplative number newly added for her, This Is So Nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Rowdy Romp into the Past AIN'T MISBEHAVIN' | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

...faction before, but these promises were like sending the Battling Bickersons to marriage counseling. But 1988 was different, in part, because the primaries symbolized the passing of the generational torch; neither Dukakis nor any of his rivals had been elected to major political office before 1974. The Democratic sweep in that post- Watergate year was a watershed, bringing to power a talented crop of young reformers -- including Dukakis -- who realized that old-fashioned liberalism was in trouble. Social issues such as busing and crime had eroded the party's blue-collar base, while middle-class voters saw the Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Democrats The Party's New Soul | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

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