Word: sweep
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...varsity four made it apparent by about the 500-meter mark that it intended to carry through the Crimson's sweep and, despite a close start, it did just that...
...country music seems to be getting popular in Cambridge at last. Geoff Muldaur is Maria's husband (or maybe ex-) and a holdover from the early-sixties folk scene; according to popular legend, when he was a teenager he hitchhiked from Boston to East Texas with a broom to sweep off the grave of an obscure early bluesman. In any event, he used to perform in a duo with Maria but since her recent success she seems to have left him to fend for himself. Watson is certainly worth going to see on his own, and Muldaur could...
Scientists have found other indications of global cooling. For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds -the so-called circumpolar vortex-that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world. Indeed it is the widening of this cap of cold air that is the immediate cause of Africa's drought. By blocking moisture-bearing equatorial winds and preventing them from bringing rainfall to the parched sub-Sahara region, as well as other drought-ridden areas stretching all the way from Central America...
Syria is potentially the most self-sufficient of the Arab nations. "We are a nation of ample natural resources," says Mohammed Imadi, the American-educated Economy Minister. "We have the land, oil, phosphates, iron ore, the right geographical location and a hardworking people." A magnificent sweep of Mediterranean coast is waiting to be developed; at the moment, Latakia is the only port city of any size. But there are developing ports at Banias and Tartous. In the interior, the Orontes River, which flows perversely to the north while all the others in the Fertile Crescent flow south, waters a lush...
Thomas is a readable writer, and the events of the McCarthy period provide fine substance for his narrative sweep. Although he warns that his book is not a biography, Thomas convincingly illustrates the days of McCarthy's life. He settles on the metaphor of the buccaneer, and the book's thesis--if it can be said to have one--is that McCarthy had neither principles nor politics, but only the pirate's instinct to hit and run. One wonders why Thomas insists on so distinguishing this book as a non-biography. To be sure, he has glossed over the Senator...