Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corner of the planet, Fidel Castro remains faithful, a true believer in a god that failed. "History will absolve me," he proclaimed at the start of his revolution, and he believes it will absolve him still. John Paul II is equally certain that his religion will one day soon sweep away even this last vestige of godless communism...
Business Bytes No Friday blues this week as Wall Street took the handoff from buoyant Asian markets and ran all day ? at least until a quarter to four, when it shed 40 in an eye-blink ? to ring out 60 to the happy side. Sweep up the slips with the FORTUNE Business Report. Get the numbers by index or stock-by-stock
...team's enthusiasm, which members say was a major factor in the outcome of the meet, also sprang from wins in the medley relay, a freshmen sweep of the 200 butterfly with Pia Chock and Kirra Brandon and a 1-2-3 finish in the 50 freestyle by Iwahara, Stringfellow and junior Jocelyn Ludwick...
...Harvard men's hockey team (5-8-2, 5-4-1 ECAC) squeaked out a close one against Dartmouth on Friday and appeared set for a regal sweep against league cellar-dweller Vermont the next night. Unfortunately, Catamount forward Jerry Gernander picked up his second goal of the year at an opportune time--with less than a minute remaining in regulation--to break a 2-2 deadlock and help send the Cats home with a weekend sweep of their...
...uniform (G.I. Joe in 1950), the younger generation (1966) and an entire gender (American women, 1975). The computer beat out flesh and blood in 1982. And the earth itself became the biggest newsmaker in 1988. But more often than not, it is a single individual who best expresses the sweep of history...