Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon sweep helped to produce a startling political horse race in Texas, where moneyed, conservative Democrats had always coasted to the statehouse on comfortable majorities. Much to his and almost everyone else's surprise, Millionaire Rancher-Banker Dolph Briscoe, 49, found himself in a down-to-the-wire battle with the Republican candidate, Houston History Teacher Henry C. Grover, 45. Grover came out of nowhere for several reasons -the Nixon landslide, Briscoe's own indifferent campaign, the presence of a Mexican-American candidate who drew many Chicano votes that normally would have gone to the Democrats. Backed...
Skipper George Putnam, along with a crew of David Brownlee, Francis Ganong, and Rick White, won the last race of the day by a wide margin. "If only there had been more races, we would have had a chance." Horn said yesterday. He had predicted a clean sweep for the Crimson today...
...play as a pro and took a $2,800-a-year job as assistant coach at his alma mater. In 1959 he joined the U.S.C. staff. One year later he was named head coach. After two losing seasons, he silenced the protests of U.S.C.'s rabid alumni by sweeping both the 1962 national championship and Coach-of-the-Year honors. The first coach to popularize the explosive I formation, McKay has a knack for confusing defenses with deceptive variations on a basic play. One Trojan favorite, a sweep known affectionately as "student-body left" because the entire team seems...
Harrington won all the cities and towns in the district, including Moseley's strongholds of Amesbury, Danvers, and Newburyport. Harrington's strong positions on urban renewal undoubtedly helped him sweep to victory in the quasi-suburbon Newburyport...
Penn plays its defensive backs deep and blitzes the corner back into the flow of any outside play hoping either to nail the sweep of overwhelm the option passer before he can get rid of the ball. Thus calls for a good short passer reading quickly and throwing into the flat which means that Crone may finally he relegated to the bench. Restic quarterback during the week but he has been saving You're going to see mute of Jimmy Stockel a little more emphatically this week...