Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...community. Marie's grandmother (Simone Signoret) acts as an omniscient narrator, lyrically introducing all the characters and explaining all the village's social intricacies. All sorts of representative characters abound--star crossed lovers, old hags doubling as witches, and dumb country bumpkins. Marie meets all these characters and is swept along into their mundane lives until the volcanic outset of her maturity...
...election for ideologues. Far-right Republicans lost some of their most notable House seats; liberal Democrats scored something of a comeback, but mostly by stressing that their liberalism was not the free-spending variety of old. Of the 52 freshman Republicans who were swept into Congress by the Reagan victory in 1980, 14 were swept right back out. Moreover, many had been newcomers not just to Congress but to politics, and they were replaced mostly by Democrats who have acquired solid experience in state or local government...
...NCPAC's most expensive campaign ($625,000) turned the slumbering Sarbanes into an active campaigner. What Sarbanes called the "alien presence" of NCPAC became such an issue that Opponent Lawrence Hogan finally threw up his hands on television and declared, "I hereby denounce NCPAC." The Democrats, apparently agreeing, swept Maryland, and Sarbanes...
...Turnpike at 4 p.m with a win in its pocket. On the opening drive of the game, Harvard halfback Steve Ernst went off right tackle and coughed the ball up, Crusader defense end Steve Raquet recovered at the Harvard 24 and four plays later H.C quarter back Pete Muldoon swept seven yard around right end and across the goal-line for a 7-0 advantage only three minutes into the contest...
...first Socialist Prime Minister in Spain since 1936 appeared to be part of a trend confined to Southern Europe, where voters have grown disillusioned with decades of ineffective center-right governments. France's President François Mitterrand and Greece's Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou swept to power last year on a wave of popular enthusiasm for promises of change, and Felipe González has now joined that socialist surge. Even in Italy, where centrist Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini still leads a shaky five-party coalition, the Socialists under Bettino Craxi have made steady gains...