Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...82nd year without an Ivy men's basketball title, the Harvard squad came with in seconds of its first weekend sweep in years on the road...
Winning scattered firefights is the first and least of the goals of Operation Well-Being, a protracted campaign that involves two other U.S.-trained Salvadoran battalions, the Atonal and the Bayoso, along with the Atlacatl unit. Their sweep through Usulután was a long-awaited extension of El Salvador's ambitious National Plan, a combined civilian-military offensive that aims to drive the guerrillas out permanently. Conceived with the help of U.S. military advisers, the National Plan was initially tested, with mixed results, last summer in the neighboring department of San Vicente. The plan's success...
Even after four years, it comes back in a sweep. All it takes is one glimpse of a hockey shirt with U.S.A. planted on the front, and suddenly the scene re-erupts in the mind: sticks waved like flags, teammates hugging, a crowd in sweet tears. Odd for the summertime nation that a Winter Olympics provided such a memorable moment in sports, so memorable that half of us still swear that we beat the Russians, not the Finns, in the finals. But winter plays tricks with the senses. If we didn't know better, it would appear that 1 those...
...force's report had something to displease everyone. Though it advocated a net increase of about $200 million in federal spending for food for the poor, Reagan is currently calling for further cuts in food-assistance programs totaling $636 million for fiscal 1985. "We'd like to sweep the report under the rug," said one White House aide. "It's widely considered that it was a big mistake...
...more than 2½ hours in 1915, when the most popular movies were Charlie Chaplin's two-reel comedies. Another Civil War melodrama, the 1939 Gone With the Wind, clocked in at 222 minutes. Yet both films tell their tales faster than Star Wars and with twice the sweep...