Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Question: What Chinese parlor game swept America in the 1920s...
...forum attracted a smattering of well known politicians and celebrities Joan Kennedy, the ex-wife of Sen Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass) swept through the forum lobby about a half an hour before the debate commenced...
...fighting erupted when Egyptian troops surged across the Suez Canal and Syrian soldiers struck in the north on the Golan Heights. Both forces swept through Israel's front lines and punched their way into Israeli-held territory under the glare of an afternoon...
...scarcely got on the air before it was over. NBC called the winner at 8:15 p.m. E.S.T., and the loser conceded while Americans were still standing in line at polling booths in much of the country. In a savage repudiation of a sitting President not seen since F.D.R. swept away Herbert Hoover in the midst of the Depression, Americans chose Ronald Wilson Reagan, at 69 the oldest man ever to be elected President, to replace Jimmy Carter...
...cast its ballots and set a trend that never varied: 17 to 3 for the challenger. Once the big count began, all the shibboleths of the election-that Americans were confused, apathetic and wished a plague on all the candidates and, above all, that they were closely divided-were swept away by a tide of votes, some hopeful, many angry, that carried Reagan to victory...