Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways, the fighting in South Viet Nam has almost faded away. American casualty rates are at the lowest level in four years. A huge sweep by 6,500 U.S. and South Vietnamese troops in the Que Son Valley near Danang has turned up almost no enemy forces in an area that has long been a center of Communist activity. But in cities and hamlets throughout the country, a war of terror is rapidly heating up. The number of murders, kidnapings and other terrorist incidents has risen from 654 in January to 1,094 last month. The incidents last week...
About the time of the sweep into the Common area. dozens of dark-suited Metropolitan District Commission police moved into positions on Mass Ave. and Mt. Auburn St., carrying shields and shotguns. The handful of people who had remained in the Square after the curfew left shortly afterward. Traffic was sent to side streets...
...aspiration towards myth. The race had no political purpose outside the vague notion of propaganda value. But it did fulfill a widespread public need to make life more endurable. The story had its deaths and triumphs, and may yet have its Frankenstein. It can rival 2001 in its epic sweep and pointed vagueness...
...boardwalk carnival rides, Asbury Park, N.J., seems a tidy, if somewhat faded haven of tranquillity. But it is also, like many American small towns, a community where "across the tracks" still has a vivid, invidious meaning. To the east of the Penn Central railroad line, where well-kept lawns sweep toward the Atlantic Ocean, live most of Asbury Park's 12,500 whites. On the West Side, in a ghetto of frame houses splaying out from Springwood Avenue, live most of Asbury Park's 8,500 blacks. Last week the tranquillity was shattered by four nights of black...
Unless the Green Revolution is carefully managed, said The Netherlands' Addeke H. Boerma, director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the result may be "a conflagration of violence that would sweep through millions of lives...