Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reading the 1955 results against prospects in 1956, Democratic Chairman Skillen predicted that his party would sweep the state. Republican State Chairman Al Cast had to console himself by philosophizing that "we run better when we're scared." In Indiana the G.O.P. this week had good reason to be scared...
...Party circles that Oregon's Democratic State Chairman Howard Morgan exploded: "Harriman and Tammany money will be routed circuitously to Kefauver to finance bitter primary fights with Stevenson in the hope of hurting both. Harriman will remain aloof from these contests, and the Eastern bosses will try to sweep up the pieces and hand them to Harriman at the convention...
...Western plan had sweep and imagination. It had been approved by all 15 NATO nations. The plan would create a vast armed belt across the middle of Europe of equal depth and equal strength, and give each side the right to inspect the other...
However, "President Eisenhower's 1955 State of the Union Speech had sweep and calm and balance," and although "it elaborated the obvious, perhaps that was precisely what the country needed...
Bill's plane did not land at Phoenix on schedule. A Coast Guard aerial search along his path began the next day. The searchers veered a few miles into Mexico. They found nothing. When Charles Schrieber made anxious inquiries the following day, more planes went up to sweep the desolate route. Again they found nothing, and in a few days the search was abandoned...