Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parade will leave Putnam Square at 2 p.m. and sweep the street in the direction of Harvard Square. The marchers will use brooms provided by the Cambridge City Manager's office, and a city truck will accompany them...
...double winner for Springfield. Pete Mikhalevsky, a Harvard sophomore, took an early lead in the breaststroke before Moulton moved ahead, and then a three-way race for second developed among Mikhalevsky, Steve Banmgart, and Springfield's Al Kleitz. Kleitz outlasted the Crimson swimmers to give the visitors their only sweep of the night...
...cops, however, weren't. Squad cars patrolled the whole area. As soon as a group of more than 50 people gathered at any street corner the cops gathered to meet them. First three or four motorcycles would arrive. Then the tear gas would be hurled. Then the cycles would sweep down the sidewalk. The object was to scatter the crowd and disperse them. If the kids had stayed together and marched either toward the White House, seven blocks away, or into the nearby ghetto Washington might have gone up in smoke...
...elections. Several plausible theories can be advanced but their mutual exclusiveness can be extremely puzzling. It is fair to say that the Boston electorate is quite conservative, law-and-order oriented, and votes in candidates that go along with it. But no one can determine why Bostonians would sweep Hicks, an outspoken anti-black politician, into office with an amazing plurality, and give second place to Tom Atkins, a liberal black from Roxbury who finished a badly beaten 16th in the primaries...
Seven Harvard law professors signed the statement, which condemned generalizations that "sweep together both peaceful criticism and irresponsible behavior...