Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Inhaling the crisp autumnal political air, Democrats around the country sensed victory. Kennedy was more exhilarated and confident than ever. His sweep into New York City last week was a Niagara of ticker tape and enthusiasm. By contrast, the Republican mood was splotched with dark worries. Dick Nixon's entrance into New York hardly got any notice. He spent the few days before Debate No. 4 holed up in his Waldorf suite, chairing strategy sessions. and making no effort to match crowds in Democratic Manhattan. Evidence of the Kennedy surge was growing: the polls and the reporters showed that...
...debate. Not only was Kennedy surging in the big-vote eastern states and winning adulation in the streets, but the Nixon camp itself was showing its first signs of gloom and discouragement. Gone was the confident prediction that Nixon would win or lose in one big sweep-the win to be based, hopefully, on his clear superiority in leadership of the cold war battle. Instead, the Nixon forces were regrouping for a dogged stateby-state battle for votes, prepared to stick to Nixon's experience theme for all it was worth but equally ready (along with the Democrats...
Only the Business School held out against the Democratic sweep. In a poll taken there by the Harbus News, Nixon floated to victory on a tide of more than two-thirds of the ballots cast...
Massachusetts will undoubtedly give Kennedy an overwhelming pluarality November 8. The Commonwealth Democratic politicians, therefore, have been counting on the coattails trick: almost any candidate closely associated with Kennedy, they feel, will sweep into office. This, in part, explains the frenetic nomination battle, that enlivened August and early September...
When former Republican Gov. C. William O'Neill took office in 1956 behind the Eisenhower sweep, the state was almost entirely Republican, with the notable exception of Sen. Frank Lausche. O'Neill opened his term with a great faux pas unintentionally ignoring Ike's wave at the 1957 inauguration, and committed many more blunders before he was finished...