Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Deployed by the Navy primarily to sweep up enemy mines and support amphibious operations, the Sea Stallion is jampacked with electronic gear. The aircraft that flew into Iran were loaded with even more equipment. An infra-red device, for example, was added to scan the territory ahead of the helicopter at night and give the pilot a TV-like picture of the approaching terrain. Even in a pitch-black night and at altitudes as low as shrub level, the pilots of the Sea Stallions would be able to see clearly where they were heading...
Ormandy's strength has always been in the late 19th and early 20th century repertory, in the music of such composers as Tchaikovsky, Strauss, Sibelius, Ravel and Debussy. Here he conducts with color and sweep, with glowing sonorities and vivid details. If he has seemed short on profound emotion or penetrating insight, notably into classical composers like Mozart and Beethoven, his musicianship-his pitch, timing and ear for balances and shadings-has always been impeccable. Having inherited a great ensemble from Stokowski, he made it greater. He has hired virtually all of the orchestra's 106 members...
...also means that when the Big Red machine rolls into Soldiers Field a week from Friday, Harvard will have to stop it, and--more importantly--when Army cruises by for a pair the next day the Crimson will have to sweep...
With freshman hurler Bill Larson throwing well, Harvard merely had to sit tight and hold on for the crucial sweep. They couldn...
...provocateur of sex, Nadezhda, played with sensual animal magnetism by Sheila Allen, is a queen bee killer. Her husband, Monakhov (Brian Murray), whom she loathes, pleads for her love, holding his spectacles in his hand like a beggar with a tin cup. The seemingly amour-proof Tsyganov offers to sweep her off to Paris and is crushed by her cruel rebuke that at 49, he is disgustingly old. Under Cherkoon's touch, however, Nadezhda becomes an emotional tinderbox. Cherkoon has already enjoyed the favors of Lydia (Roxanne Hart), an achingly bored, terribly wealthy beauty who has been visiting...