Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...liquor or beer can be sold inside the Garden. The Democrats are also doing without balloons, streamers and other traditional convention frills-though of course Carter fans may bring their own confetti into the Garden. Even with a "clean convention," it costs more than $8,000 a night to sweep up after the delegates...
...Doyle, is in charge of a ten-square-block area around convention hall. He has 1,200 police who have taken a quickie course in crowd control and what they call "crisis intervention." He also has four specially trained dogs. Every day before the delegates arrive, the dogs will sweep the convention center from top to bottom to sniff out possible bombs...
While I may not necessarily be "for" him, Carter will be elected President by a sweep reminiscent...
...sweep of this first volume (more are to come) extends from the start of the 2nd century to Constantine's triumphant emergence from a series of civil wars in A.D. 324. With his very first unhesitant sentences, Gibbon sets the situation and foreshadows the outcome...
...automatic life imprisonment for anyone caught with guns, grenades or explosive devices). A new addition to the nighttime sights and sounds of the city is the loud whir of an army helicopter with a powerful searchlight, hovering over an area where security forces have moved in to make a sweep...