Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...training machines were not Stalnaker'sfirst stop. "When I first got there, everyone hadto draw lots. And three of us got two weeks ofkitchen duty before we could begin our training,"she says. "That's where I learned how to sweep...
Exactly 712 students were arrested in the first sweep. But thousands of others assembled to watch the arrests, chanting anti-police slogans. In violation of a prearranged agreement between police and administrators, officers charged the crowd of students and injured many in their attempts to clear the area...
...carry the day. "That war," Clinton told the , graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy last week, "marked the turning point of our century, when we joined with our Allies to stem a dark tide of dictatorship, and to start a flow of democracy and freedom that continues to sweep the world." While peace is far from universal even in Europe, Western Europe is more prosperous and more unified than it has ever been. The cold war proved to be only a temporary faltering. The success of the wartime alliance gave birth to the United Nations and NATO and made...
...drive the Allies back into the sea, Hitler chose to throw all he had into a decisive fight in Normandy rather than withdraw to another defense line along the Seine. But when U.S. forces under Bradley did finally surge out of the peninsula at the end of July and sweep south and east, 21 German divisions were outflanked and almost destroyed. Their retreat over the Seine became a rout, and the victorious Allies reached Paris in a week...
...didn't get his sergeant's stripes, I was going to get hurt." She's angered that he remains in the Army in good standing even as it investigates his bigamy. "The military knows he has two wives, but he's still in the Army," she says. "They just sweep it under...