Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successors have not even given Brazil development. First, the erratic Jànio Quadros let Brazil's boom falter, then resigned in a fit of pique. Next came the leftist João Goulart, who only compounded the troubles until the military stepped in, grimly determined to sweep out all the old politicians...
...guerrilla students everywhere. When a guerrilla band turns up in Cuba, Raul smothers the area with as many as 5,000 troops. All civilians are removed, along with cattle, chickens and other sources of food; homes and barns are destroyed, wells filled in, fences pulled down. Then the troops sweep forward, much as beaters at a rabbit hunt. When the guerrillas are caught, they are shot; if they own land, it is confiscated. Their children become wards of the state, are separated from their mothers and placed in Castro training schools...
...Junior Varsity soccer team blanked Williams, 4-0, to complete the sweep...
...shhs). Greasers knead their locks with greasy kid stuff, then comb it back into long waves that lap against their collars. Surfers achieve a wind-blown effect by constant washing-sometimes every day. They either let their locks dangle just above their eyebrows, a la Prince Valiant, or sweep them back over one side of the forehead into the "frat" look. Because the resulting bang usually slips down to cover one eye, many fraters develop a tic from jerking their heads back to clear their vision...
...looks good, though. Director Serge Bourguignon, 37, who made Sundays and Cybèle, turned himself loose on that old prop, the American desert. His stunning sweep of distance and nuance of color amount to a rediscovery of America, and his smallest scenes and routine closeups are invariably composed with care and elegance. But the action drifts with the unmotivated irrelevance of a dream...