Word: swept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Those menacing black clouds, and the fierce thunderstorms accompanied by hailstones bigger than cherries, played an important role last week in answering the prayers of Councilman Fisher: he and the rest of his Democratic coalition slate, aided in part by the weather that kept many voters indoors, swept into office in Kansas City's municipal elections. In the process they knocked out the nonpartisan Citizens Association Party that had ruled the once corrupt city for 19 healthy years. Citizens Association survivor of the hail-battered election: popular Mayor H. (for Harold) Roe Bartle...
...tough matches and often lost, while the bottom of the team was only mildly tested. The varsity's victories down south came mainly on the basis of depth: against Presbyterian on Friday, the Crimson dropped first and second singles and first doubles, and then swept the remaining six matches...
...weeks' municipal elections in 38,000 French communities seemed to bear L'Humanité out. In France's 13 largest cities, the Communists polled 27.7% of the vote, regaining the title of France's largest party from the Gaullist Union for the New Republic, which swept last November's elections to the National Assembly. The U.N.R. polled little more than three-quarters of its previous vote...
Along with the Communists, most of the rest of France's long established parties-the Socialists, the Radicals, the Catholic M.R.P.-regained ground. In November's Assembly elections, the power of De Gaulle's name, and disgust with the shortcomings of the old Fourth Republic, had swept the fledgling U.N.R. into office. In local elections, however, Frenchmen are primarily influenced by local issues, familiar faces, and entrenched machines. Accordingly, it was the old hands who did best last week...
Captain Joe Noble, Bob Foster and John Watkins posted the only Crimson wins, as Yale swept the other five matches. Noble, wrestling at 147--one weight lower than his normal class--easily defeated Bob Schoeneman, 4-0. Watkins, also dropping down a class to 130, took a 7-3 decision from Bob Kramer...