Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they would emit less waste. Manufacturers have developed smaller, more efficient stoves. But poor burning practices abound. Homeowners sometimes toss green, moist wood into their fires, along with rubbish and newspapers. (The EPA recommends wood that has been air-dried at least a year.) Mark Loding, a chimney sweep who practices his Dickensian craft in the Charlevoix-Petoskey-Harbor Springs area of Michigan, is appalled by the fire making habits of his customers. Says he: "Chimneys are clogged with nasty stuff. People are putting in too much wood and not allowing enough air to reach the fire...
...adds, would be the prime opportunity to hit back. A weekend sweep might just be the impetus for a drive to the Crimson's first-ever Ivy title, he concludes...
Boorstin surveys the world through both telescope and microscope. His narrative zooms from panoramic vistas to richly textured details. Only the great French historian Femand Braudel has so well spliced together the grand sweep of history with snapshots of particular events, as in his series on The Structures of Everyday Life...
Still following their anonymous tip, the police made a first arrest even before they began the warehouse rescue operation. Then they launched a three-city sweep in which they quickly recovered some of the ransom money and arrested 25 suspects and subsequently detained eleven, most of them members of a single family...
...Palma and Stone had aspirations of Godfatherhood: an operatic overview of the nation's immigrant black princes, a meticulous dissection of the relationship between crime and Big Business, a celebration of the American power ethic, a warning against corporal or corporate abuse. But Scarface lacks the generational sweep and moral ambiguity of the Corleone saga. At the end, Tony is as he was at the beginning: his development and degeneration are horrifyingly predictable; his death evokes not fear or pity, but numb relief...