Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sweep and mass of "people's pageantry" was especially evident in Peking during last month's National Day parade, which celebrated the 21st anniversary of the Communist takeover. Normally a festival of empty rockets and loaded rhetoric, the event this year was an almost uninterrupted kaleidoscope of less destructive gear-balloons, pompons and brilliant fireworks (see color). If the emphasis was on anything, it was on the goal of practical "socialist reconstruction," as symbolized by gigantic sheaves of wheat drawn through the crowds by farm commune tractors...
Only the Business School held out against the Democratic sweep. In a poll taken there by the Harbus News, Nixon floated to victory on a tide of more than two-thirds of the ballots cast...
...Under this law a student must always be on guard. For nothing he says to his professor or academic advisor or other agent of his college or university that comes within the broad sweep of categories covered can be considered confidential. This will cast a shadow of suspicion and fear over...the student-teacher relationship itself...
...tangible outcome of the Republicans' gains is in doubt because their victories leave the Democrats with Congressional majorities. But the Democratic gubernatorial sweep hasprovided that party with a far greater number of statewide bases from which to launch an offensive against Nixon...
...Governor William Milliken's campaign. He was the favorite to win in November until his indecisiveness and the strike combined to boost his opponent, Sander Levin, a former Democratic state chairman. Still, Milliken is a slight favorite-unless popular Democratic Senator Phil Hart has coattails long enough to sweep up Levin...