Word: swept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson had a shot at catching eventual Eastern League winner Navy, from whom the batsmen swept a doubleheader in early April. But the loss to Cornell, on the last weekend of the season, dropped Harvard's league record to 9-5 and prevented the Crimson from playing in the NCAA playoffs...
...Prime Minister for more than eleven years, governing his nation longer than any other contemporary leader in the West. He had become a symbol of Canadian federalism who fought hard against the separatist yearnings of his fellow French Canadians in his native province of Quebec (see box). Swept to power on a wave of "Trudeaumania," he had once seemed the very model of a philosopher-statesman, blessed with an impressive intellect and an acerbic wit-not to mention a sensuous young wife. But last week Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 59, who had served three times as Canada's chief executive...
Stubbornly independent, Randolph was not swept up in the ideological currents of his time, resisting both Communism and the black nationalism of Jamaican Organizer Marcus Garvey. He kept his own counsel, shunning Harlem's high society and enjoying the company of his wife Lucille, a former beauty parlor operator whose sprightliness contrasted with his own solemnity...
...Conservatives won only two seats out of 74 in Quebec, but they swept all the seats in Alberta and took a majority of seats in both Atlantic Canada and British Columbia...
With zest, an unaccustomed light touch and the drive of a workaholic, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher swept grandly into office last week. The widely accepted grading of her initial high-speed performance: A for action...