Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...produce from 30 to 300 eggs, which dry out and are preserved in the baked mud after floodwaters recede. The next year, when the plains are inundated again, the eggs hatch in as little as half an hour after they are moistened, producing a new generation of fish to sweep the waters clear of mosquito larvae...
...Sukkot.* The dancers were mostly men, but a few congregations allowed women to join in and carry the scrolls-to the bitter disapproval of the Orthodox. Women are forbidden to touch the Torah by an injunction of Halakah, that vast body of law that regulates Jewish life with a sweep ranging from lofty ethical norms to small dietary injunctions. Halakah, which means variously "the law" and "the way" in Hebrew, is considered by many to be the essence of Judaism, the cement that for centuries enabled the Jews of the Diaspora to keep their covenant with the Lord. Yet today...
Dave McNally completed an astonishing four-game World Series sweep by Baltimore's much-scorned pitching staff yesterday, with a 1-0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Frank Robinson's towering home...
...thinking about: he is a tournament champion. Or bridge: he collects master points. Or business: he is heir to a Memphis real estate fortune, owns two soft-drink bottling plants in Oregon. But right now he is trying to decide whether to counteract a strong-side blitz with a sweep or a Sprint-H. Football is Tommy's favorite hobby-and it also happens to be his profession. At 46, Prothro is head coach of the U.C.L.A. Bruins, who last week were the No. 2-ranked col lege team...
Long into the night the combines clattered and roared, their headlights probing like huge pale fingers into the golden sea of Saskatchewan's wheatfields. As the harvest gathered momentum across the 1,000-mile sweep of the Canadian prairies last week, the empty, echoing granaries filled with the largest crop in the nation's history-a crop that is already sold out, as is all the grain the prairies can grow for the rest of the decade. With the rumble of the harvest came a cacophony of Canadian sounds that, taken together, sounded unmistakably like boom...