Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowded as it was by the turbulent sweep of events in Hungary and the Middle East, the U.S. election nonetheless made history of its own. By a shattering and startling landslide of 457 electoral votes to 74 (Wednesday a.m.), the U.S. awarded Dwight D. Eisenhower a second term in the greatest personal vote of confidence since F.D.R...
...Clock. Four-fifths of the vote was still to be counted, but it was all over for caution's good grey grandmother, the New York Times. EISENHOWER WINS IN A SWEEP, it decided at 10 o'clock sharp. By that time. Virginia's twelve electoral votes. Maryland's nine, apparently New Jersey's 16 were Eisenhower's, and he was running ahead in Pennsylvania, the state the Democrats had said they had to take in order to win. The Stevenson forces en joyed a few slim sunbeams-14 sure electoral votes in North Carolina...
Dwight Eisenhower seemed fated to be the first winning presidential candidate since Woodrow Wilson (1916) unable to sweep his party into control of the House of Representatives. But while Ike and the Republicans did not seem likely to dent the solid majority of 230 seats which the Democratic Party had in the 84th Congress, they did succeed in changing the voting patterns that have dominated U.S. congressional elections for a century. In 1956 the Republican Party was picking up Congressmen in the cities, losing them in the country...
...nations who have won full independence since World War II. We know and respect both their national pride and their economic need. Here we speak from the heart of our heritage. We, too, were born at a time when the tide of tyranny running high threatened to sweep the earth. We prevailed and they shall prevail...
...temporary international control of the Suez, the less lives will be lost," pronounced General Sir Charles Keightley (rhymes with neatly), C-in-C of the joint Anglo-French operation, from his Cyprus GHQ. The political hope in London and Paris was that airstrikes alone, combined with the Israeli sweep across the Sinai, would persuade Egypt to surrender, or to overthrow Nasser. But the basic military intent was to clear the skies for Anglo-French invasion...