Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gushing over Ferraro's virtues suggests that Mondale expects to be swept into office on Ferraro's petticoat, a triumph of lingerie over logic...
...example, income increased a meager .5%, and Reagan swept...
...starts going again. Crashes serve much more as opportunities for passing than for broken legs. One of the most exciting parts of Saturday's action was in the second-to-last race, when leader Scott Burnsworth fell on the sixth lap and local favorite Jo Jo Keller swept into the lead...
...remembered something she had repressed for twelve years: "They didn't want me to be nominated, and after my name was placed in nomination, Pierre Salinger came and took out our floor telephone." Mondale's choice of a woman, she said, "felt like a big wave that swept away all the disappointments and defeats of the last twelve years...
Politics, after all, is the art of compromise, and Humphrey was merely practicing the trade. The problem, says Solberg, a former TIME writer and visiting lecturer in history at Columbia University, is that Humphrey was still compromising as the tide of liberalism swept past him. Having failed to gain the Democratic vice-presidential nomination in 1956 and the presidential spot in 1960, he saw Johnson's 1964 invitation to join him on the ticket as his last hope. Humphrey wanted to be President so badly that he buried his aversion to the Viet Nam conflict. Johnson abused Humphrey shamelessly...