Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last precincts in St. Louis suburbs were heard from, Bush had won by a margin of 4,500. Dole had failed to carry a single state, while Robertson's organizers managed to win the poorly attended caucuses in Washington State. Talking about the primaries, Atwater exulted, "A clean sweep. A shutout. It doesn't get any better than this...
...America's most rabid right-wing Senator is a paid Soviet agent whose stepson has been programmed by Moscow and Peking to assassinate this year's presidential candidate and thus sweep the Senator into the White House "with powers that will make martial law seem like anarchy...
...clean sweep for student protesters, Bravin announced that the board of trustees would form a task force to study composition of the board, and institute a plan to ensure that a majority of the school's 20-member trustees panel was deaf. There also will be no reprisals against student protesters, Bravin said...
Bush spent the day in Houston savoring his 16-state primary sweep and the roughly 600 delegates they brought. The outlook for Illinois wasn't bad either, as Gov. James Thompson was backing the vice president and Sen. Bob Dole (R.-Kan.)'s own campaign polls gave Bush the lead...
Going into last weekend's contests with Yale and Brown, Harvard had a chance to finish in third place in the Ivy League. A sweep of the Elis and Bruins would have improved the Crimson's Ivyrecord to 8-6, and evened the squad's overall markat...