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Word: sweepingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a scoreless first quarter, Harvard jumped out to 14-0 advantage at intermission on two touchdowns by running back Silas Myers--one on a 3-yd. sweep off right tackle, one on an 18-yd. pass play from Harvard signal-caller Tim Perry, who completed 10 of 17 passes on the day for 182 yards...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Gridders Spoil Yale's Perfect Year, 37-20 | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

Proposition 1-2-3's failure was so overwhelming that joking rumors abounded this week that 1-2-3 was really part of a CCA master plan to sweep the election...

Author: By Matthew M. Hoffman, | Title: How 1-2-3 Defeated Its Own Supporters | 11/14/1989 | See Source »

Bush began his journey saying, "Today there are only a few lonely holdouts against the sweep of democracy through this hemisphere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush, Latin Leaders Celebrate Democracy | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

...brought about the second revolution in communications, after the invention of movable type in the 15th century, is so new that some photographers who pioneered its development -- Peter Stackpole, Dmitri Kessel, George Tames, Alfred Eisenhstaedt, Howard Sochurek and I -- are still taking pictures for publication. The speed and sweep of photojournalism's technical achievements can be appreciated by considering the life of one of its greatest pioneers, Fritz Goro. He began his career in the 1930s using flash powder to light his subjects, and just before he died in 1986, he was using a laser beam for light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Best Job in the World | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

SOUTHERN CROSS. Playwright Jon Klein uses characters as diverse as General Sherman, Elvis and Martin Luther King Jr. to evoke the sweep of a region's history in this epic world premiere by Atlanta's Alliance Theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Voices: Oct. 16, 1989 | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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