Word: swept
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...year. But the true importance of the 1984 election was not simply Ronald Reagan's overwhelming electoral total. It was the profound demographic shifts that helped account for his landslide. An analysis of the President's virtually unprecedented avalanche of support shows that he swept not only every region of the country but every age group and almost every demographic voting bloc. Reagan captured most new voters as well as those for whom voting Democratic had been a lifelong tradition. He won most cities and towns, almost every suburb, and swamped his opponent in rural areas. Indeed...
There they could do nothing except repeat horror stories of the chaos and carnage that had swept through more than 80 cities. In a camp set up in the Gandhi Memorial Higher School in Delhi, one Sikh survivor after another described how friends and loved ones had been murdered. "My three sons were burned alive," quietly began Amrik Singh, a sad-eyed man whose gray beard had been forcibly shaved to a silver stubble by a mob wielding knives. "They came to my house. They dragged my sons out. They put petrol on them and set them on fire." Near...
Vignali got the call from Harvard Coach Joe Restic, and after rumbling up the middle for 12 yards on the first play, he swept in from the 3 on the next play for his--and Harvard's--second score...
Political observers said that Mondale might have benefited from a "reverse coattail effect," drawing strength from popular Democratic Senate candidate John F. Kerry. Kerry swept to a comfortable victory over Republican Raymond Shamie...
...thus became the fourth American League pitcher to win both awards. Rollie Fingers of Milwaukee did it in 1981, Oakland's Vida Blue won both in 1971, and Denny McLain of Detroit, the last Tiger MVP, swept the awards...