Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rains have stopped in Angola, and for the first time Portuguese troop carriers have been able to range freely on the dirt roads of the back country. A swath through northern Angola, extending 130 miles south from the Congo frontier, now lies scorched as the Portuguese advance, burning the underbrush to smoke out hidden rebels. The rebels, badly armed, have no answer. Villages lie deserted; livestock, farms and gardens are abandoned as terrified natives flood into the lower Congo. Many know little about the rebellion...
...year-old bridegroom was already dreaming of cutting a swath through battlefield and boudoir. The 14-year-old bride thought only of venerating church, husband and home. On April 11, 1774, as arranged by two of France's first families, Gilbert Motier de La Fayette married Adrienne d'Ayen. The bride had barely left the altar when she was forced to begin a lifelong struggle to preserve her marriage to the soldier who became a hero of the American Revolution, a prime mover of the French Revolution, and a roving gallant who collected mistresses like medals...
...tragedy. Last week, in some few such places as Waterloo, in the Cedar River region of Iowa, where adequate flood-control installations do not yet exist, more than 6,000 people fled their homes as the river overswelled its banks. But for countless other homeowners in the broad center swath of the U.S., the rising tide of spring floodwaters portended no such disaster: they were protected by a fantastic flood-control system that has been abuilding for 135 years at a cost of at least $22 billion...
Chinese Magician. Jacquemar, determined that justice be done, trails her to Saratoga Springs, where Gabrielle has already cut her customary deadly swath: Carapin is enfeebled, one elderly U.S. admirer has died, another is on the verge of suicide. Her task is made easy by the trifling competition of U.S. women, who, though pretty, "were devoid of fragrance like immortelles, coarsened into mannishness by some deep disappointment, and hostile to the male." Jacquemar, no Bellerophon, is unable to slay this particular Chimera. He falls hopelessly in love with Gabrielle and is endlessly deceived. Watching as she frolics with a farm...
Just before dawn one morning last week, a 98-ft. Atlas-Able rocket rose majestically from its launching pad and for 68 seconds cut a brilliant, steady swath through the Florida sky. Then, suddenly, the rocket's nose lurched, and an instant later a red-orange mushroom blast shattered the sixth U.S. attempt to put a paddle-wheel satellite in orbit around the moon. If the feat had succeeded, it would have rivaled even the Russian successes of hitting the moon and photographing its backside...