Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past month, such testimony has sent a chill through the Tribunales courtroom in Buenos Aires. There, six judges are presiding over a trial in which nine top military leaders, including three former Presidents, are charged with responsibility for a broad sweep of crimes. "There has never been anything like this in Latin America," says Journalist Jacobo Timerman, who himself was imprisoned and tortured. "Imagine -- civilians sitting in judgment on the military...
...believe," Jean Dubuffet declared in 1958, "in the utility of oblivion. In fact I should like to see a mammoth statue of Oblivion in the main square of every town, instead of the libraries and museums. Let us make a clean sweep of the art of the past!" Fat chance. Such manifestos had already been part of the rubric of modernism -- or of a certain kind of modernism -- for the best part of half a century, since the Futurist Filippo Marinetti and the Dadaist Hugo Ball exhorted the young to burn their museums for the sake...
...week, torrential downpours damaged 5% of the supplies stranded at Assab. Worse still, heavy rains expected in many areas within the next two months will render roads muddy and impassable for relief trucks. Above all, they will increase the likelihood that both contagious diseases and death by exposure could sweep through the crowded camps...
...financial quandary now that describes the changing standards of the sport. Ordinarily a smashing Derby winner points automatically to next week's Preakness, with further dreams at Belmont. But a $2 million bonus, on top of a $600,000 Jersey Derby purse, awaits the horse that can sweep those three Garden State races and the Kentucky Derby. The Jersey Derby comes nine days after the Preakness, and Spend A Buck cannot keep both appointments. "We're in the business to win purses," Diaz said, pointing out ominously that there are other routes to high stud fees than the Triple Crown...
Cornell was as unbeatable in the field event, as Dartmouth was overwhelming in the distance races. The Big Green's Jim Sapienza led a Dartmouth sweep of the first five places in the 10,000, while teammate Mike Fadil cruised to victory in the steeplechase...