Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...welcomed by a star, a chimney sweep...
...Harvard cross-country team should sweep easily to its second straight win of the season this afternoon at Franklin Park against a rebuilding Northeastern team...
...high police official said police began their sweep because of intelligence information that the crowd was about to storm the hotel. This "information" was obtained by two private investigators who had been hired by the Century City Corporation to infiltrate PAC (Peace Action Council), the group which organized the march...
This coincidence, according to the PAC official, was the proposed justification for the brutal sweep of the police. "Her entire statement is half truths and lies," said the PAC executive...
After the war was only 60 hours old, Israeli troops were in sight of the canal. In their sweep across the desert they bypassed some twenty to thirty thousand Egyptian soldiers who are even now continuing to stumble back toward the Suez. Soon the Israelis had so many prisoners that they would only detain officers. An official Israeli statement announced that some of the retreating Egyptian soldiers had been machine-gunned by their own troops form across the canal upon their ar- rival. The statement also said that the Egyptians had cut the water pipe lines which fed from Egypt...