Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past two years as they struggled with the Third World's staggering debt problems. But the financiers arriving in Washington for this week's joint annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were in an upbeat mood. Gone was the near panic that swept the same meeting in 1982 after Mexico declared that it could not make its loan payments on schedule. Now the bankers and ministers share a growing optimism about the health of the world economy...
...began devouring fruit. Now, with the wholesale price of orange juice already 27% higher than last year, the worst yet has come. Last week scientists confirmed that a deadly new strain of citrus canker, a bacterial disease that is harmless to humans but defoliates and kills trees, has swept from Ward's Nursery, a citrus farm near Avon Park, to at least four other nurseries, one as far away as Naples, 125 miles from the source...
...entered the Guild room, sat once again, stared at the photo once again, felt at ease in old contours once again, was swept over with joy, doom, nostalgia...
...Cousy as a Boston Brave, a San Diego Charger and a Cincinnati Royal. Joe Namath's farewell passes wobbled not in the cause of the New York Jets but on behalf of the Los Angeles Rams. The sweeping fullback of the Green Bay Packers, Jim Taylor, was swept out with the New Orleans Saints...
...side last week in 45 ft. of water, eleven miles from the Belgian coast. Gale-force winds and 15-ft. swells had broken it in two, raising fears that 30 steel containers filled with uranium hexafluoride, raw material from which nuclear fuel is made, might be swept out of the ship's holds into the sea. Then the bad weather broke, salvage operations resumed, and by midweek the first of the containers, originally destined for the Soviet Union, was winched to the surface...