Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard lights came roaring into this season a month ago shouting "no prisoners," signifying their determination to sweep a swath through Eastern rowing without mercy. But this powerful eight is regrouping for a second charge down the mountainside this week after Yale forced a hasty retreat last Sunday...
...nothing can be done to stop the erosion, the wide swath of beach that makes Padre a paradise will be the first victim. Then the sprouting condominiums, sold to sun-loving families from across the country, could themselves be endangered...
...Moving through brash, says Hall, "is like trying to punch yourself through a room full of marshmallows." The Mac copes differently with ice 2 ft. thick. The old cutter does not exactly knife through it. She just sort of squashes the stuff, bit by bit. As we hit a swath of virgin ice half a mile wide, out in the bay, the twin screws in the stern force the ship's nearly 2-in.-thick tempered-steel bow up over the edge of the ice. The ice bends, then yields with a deep, dull, grinding mutter. Below decks...
...price boosts. A danger that much of the region might change its tilt away from the U.S. and toward the Soviet Union. A Middle East peace seemingly more elusive than ever. These are the troubles and threats that America faces in the so-called crescent of crisis-that great swath of countries running from the Horn of Africa through Egypt and across the Middle East to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Here, more than in any other area of the world, the U.S. has vital interests that are threatened by forces it has not been able to control, and all too often...
Interstate 90 is a city-parting swath through the west side of Cleveland that permits white-collar suburbanites to move easily downtown to work. It was the Monday after Cleveland had become the first major U.S. city since the Depression to default on its debts, and I was on the road, driving downtown to buy concert tickets...