Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slashing gale capsized a ferry in the Korea Strait, causing 137 deaths, and an avalanche in the mountains of north central Japan entombed 19 persons. The thermometer was playing tricks. While Moscow's temperature was 11°, the mercury plummeted to fantastic depths in a broad swath across the U.S.: -19° in Cleveland, -30° in parts of Kentucky and Tennessee...
Violence & Votes. All faced a difficult decision. Castro no longer cuts a wide swath through Latin America, but local discontents can oft be fanned by Fidelism. Ten nations (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Peru, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, the Dominican Republic) hold national elections this year, and this weighed in their deliberations...
...still be said that New University Thought outdistances the recent swath of publications with which it is perenially compared, and that its academic and social potential has already been proven. But the road to hell is paved with good intentions and low standards...
...than in the city's Southwest quadrant, from Capitol Hill to the Waterfront. The area was long a fetid slum (through it once ran bawdy old Four-and-a-Half Street, the capital's last centralized red-light district). Now the builders have cut a 550-acre swath through Southwest Washington. Some 4,657 families, most of them Negro, have been relocated. Beside NASA's new edifice, three other Federal Office Buildings are rising on Independence Avenue, and two more will be built by 1966. A new brick marketplace has replaced the flyspecked old Twelfth Street Market...
...front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived ... 7 wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience...