Word: swept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through a driving rain that swept the Cuban coast, 2,100 U.S. Marines stormed into Guantanamo Bay, the tiny U.S. military base that perches like a lighthouse on the eastern tip of Fidel Castro's island fortress...
...good shape organizationally." But Sergio Ben-dixen, executive director of the Florida draft-Kennedy committee, saw a different significance: "We proved we have strength. But it's very tough to fight the incumbent without a real candidate. With him in it, we would have swept Florida...
Many of those who were swept into office by the professional tactics developed in recent years, says Eisenhower, come to Washington with "the assumption that they don't dare be truthful" about the great questions facing the nation. The presidential selection process of dozens of state primaries preceding the conventions is also on the Eisenhower list of political abominations. He sees political maneuver being placed over purpose...
Waiting patiently for a crack at the goal, sophomore wing Cat Ferrante capitalized on the opposition's frenzied play when she swept down out of nowhere to emerge with the ball just in front of the Williams netminder--who committed herself too soon to prevent the slick Ferrante from notching the Crimson's third score. Moments later, back striker Elien Jocovik followed Ferrante's lead, picking up a pass from Cecile Scoon and powering her way past for the fourth and final Harvard goal...
...floor of the New York Stock Exchange, where prices had generally been climbing through the year, brokers were swept up in a selling wave that caused pandemonium on Wall Street and twinges of fear throughout the country. In just five days, the market dive left investors with some $55 billion in paper losses and sent the Dow Jones industrial average plunging a total of 58.62 points to a week's close of 838.99. In terms of points, that was the Dow's second steepest one-week decline ever; during the week of Oct. 16, 1978, when prices were hammered...