Word: sweeps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Armed with shotguns, Magnums, carbines and clubs, teams of men sweep the streets, enforcing a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew for everyone under 18. Citizens cower behind the barricaded doors of their own homes, listening to the shots and shouts that punctuate the night air. The city is not Beirut or Belfast but Detroit, whose agonies are every bit as real and whose conflicts seem equally impossible to eradicate...
...puts more English on the ball than can be found in most freshman college classes. It is as though Nolan Ryan's 101-m.p.h. fastball had suddenly turned into a 150-m.p.h. knuckleball. The players dart to line up the angle, leap for the catch and, elbow locked, sweep the ball back to the wall...
...liberal credentials (actually, he prefers to call them populist), attacked the Republicans as corrupt, incompetent and insensitive, and referred to the "Nixon-Ford Administration." He evoked applause from an American Bar Association audience when he vowed "to take a new broom to Washington and do everything possible to sweep the house of Government clean...
...enjoyed miraculously long immunity from the dreaded plague that used to sweep Europe. It was not until June 27, 1899, that the S.S. Nippon Maru reached San Francisco, carrying, among other things, eleven Japanese stowaways. Two were found drowned, and infected by the plague. Early in 1900 a Chinese immigrant, found dead, was also shown to have had plague. The resulting political furor was reminiscent of the Middle Ages, with the Governor of California insisting that there was no problem and federal authorities demanding stern measures for quarantine, isolation, disinfection and rat extermination. It took almost ten years of squabbling...
Fourteen centuries before Christ, the mystical pharaoh Akhenaten tried to sweep away the ancient pantheon of gods worshiped in Egypt. To replace the gods, he devised a kind of monotheism. Since monotheism is the modern preference, Akhenaten is now considered to have been one of civilization's heroes. But at the time his religion was very bad politics. Akhenaten failed; the ancient gods won: The surprise is not that Allen Drury, the Advise and Consent man, has written a book about Akhenaten-a pyramid could be made of books about him and his queen Nefertiti-but that his viewpoint...