Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...teams traded goals early in the second period, and then things began to get silly. Leading 3-2, the Husky offense--which was actually not all that impressive--picked up two more goals. Brian Fahringer swept past the blueline to tally at 9:16, and Bucyk beat Lau for a short-handed tally at 13:36 to put the Huskies up by three...
They occupy an imaginary booth. Oliver begins plying Carrie with sweet talk, and intimacy becomes ardor. Swept away by their playacting, they end the scene clinging and kissing. What is doubly enchanting about this moment is that Jean Kerr has shown us in miniature precisely how the dramatic imagination works, how we as playgoers are carried across the threshold from reality to illusion in the twinkling of a craftsmaster...
When New York Mayor Edward Koch visited China last winter, he was beguiled by the sight of a million Chinese gliding harmoniously through their streets on bicycles. "I was swept away," Koch said later, "by the thought of what could be." Traffic back home, of course, is a lot denser and meaner than in Peking, but for a time Koch thought that the vision might translate at least partly to New York. A transit strike there last spring swelled the ranks of the city's commuting bicyclists to nearly Chinese proportions. Like Toad of Toad Hall discovering the motorcar...
...pack of 225 runners broke from the starting line, North Carolina and the University of Arizona established themselves at the forefront and never let up. The Tar Heels swept the meet with first, second, and fifth place finishers for a devastating 76 points, and Univ. Arizona and Univ. Virginia came in second and third...
...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 rising tide of votes, some hopeful, many angry, that carried Reagan to victory in one of the most astonishing political and personal triumphs in the nation's history...