Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard clung to a small lead for more than half the evening but eventually succumbed to the Terriers 'dominance in the short races. B.U. swimmers swept the 50 freestyle and the 50 butterfly and finished one-two in the 100 back stroke...
...governor of California. Ronald Reagan tried to dump statewide programs onto localities, which responded by raising taxes dramatically. The result, several years later, was a massive property tax revolt that swept dozens of incumbents from office. Reagan, however, escaped blame; by then, he had left office and was off and running for the White House. This time, we hope he is not so lucky. Congress should reject his New Federalism and expose it for what it really is: the President's latest ploy to escape responsibility for the virtual war he has declared on America's needy...
...intellectuals and labor unions. Even Poultryman Schechter confessed that "the 16 votes in our family were cast in his favor." The hapless Lemke won only 890,000 votes and Communist Earl Browder a trifling 80,000. Alf Landon later remarked that the result reminded him of a tornado that swept away a man's barn and reduced his house to splinters. The man's wife found him laughing in the ruins and demanded to know what he was laughing at. Said he: "The completeness...
...exactly half a century ago this summer that the call to arms was sounded, and half a century ago this fall that it was answered. Roosevelt swept the bewildered Herbert Hoover out of the White House by a landslide of 472 electoral votes to 59. The new Congress too was ready for bold leadership-ready indeed to give up much of its own authority-and in Roosevelt's legendary first hundred days he won approval of 15 major legislative innovations. Many of the New Deal's experiments failed or faltered into limbo, but others became part...
...Reagan and his party, economic paralysis is even more dangerous than it was to Ford and Carter. The Republicans swept into power in 1980 by promising a massive revitalization of the economy that would primarily benefit blue-collar workers. Convening, appropriately, in Detroit itself, they proclaimed a "new populism" based on supply-side economics. GOP party chairman Bill Brock promised "jobs, jobs, jobs"; the President himself informed the Carpenter's Union several months ago of an imminent "American renaissance that will astound the world; a new era of good feeling in America, a time when jobs will be plentiful...