Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first cold gusts of autumn sweep the land, wage earners are settling down to the realization that a long siege of freezelike controls on pay increases lies ahead. But come the winter of their discontent, Americans can warm themselves with the thought that by keeping a weather eye out for surreptitious or unintentional price increases, they can use their private protests to make Phase II really work...
...JOHN FORD In this piece of lightweight scholarship, Director-Critic Peter Bogdanovich reviews the career of John Ford as if he were anatomizing the canon of Yeats. Ford, director of classic Americana from Stagecoach to The Grapes of Wrath to The Last Hurrah, is an artist of enormous sweep. But he has been guilty of certain venial sins, among them boozy sentimentality and the use of overfamiliar stock characters. In Bogdanovich's eyes every blemish is a virtue, and no detail is too trivial to examine. He traces, for example, the history of a gesture first used by Harry...
...first that seems to be the nub of the sermon. The old machines don't crank, the old ways are as irrelevant as dead leaves; it is time to sweep them away and leave the world clean for a new generation like the boy Kermit who "brought so little to what he saw, he saw what was there...
...Diego Padres this winter, Dobson found it fairly easy to catch the spirit of the program. Improving on his 14-15 record with the last-place Padres, he ended the season with a 20-8 record. Even so, the other three pitchers were so effective in their sweep of Oakland that Dobson sat out the playoffs in the bullpen...
...were trying to draw the defense to one side and then quickly shift fields," Adedeji said after the game. "When I get the ball I pretend that I'm not moving to attract attention, and when the defense surrounds me, I sweep the ball to the other side. And when Charlie Thomas and Phil Kydes are dribbling in the middle, the defense forgets about me and I'll be open...