Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South American entry playing in Boston in Chile. Although the squad boasts a few well known players, principally goalie Roberto Rojas, whose acrobatic style put his team into the Olympics, the team gained their birth through the back door. South American soccer was dominated last year by Brazil, who swept through the qualifying rounds undefeated. Chile qualified for the Olympics over two other teams with identical 1-2 records by virtue of its superior scoring and defense records...
...week, but not with guns blazing. As the tanks and armored cars rattled through the streets, people peered over bullet-pocked balconies and cheered. Some women tossed rice and rose water at the grinning soldiers. While one brigade pushed through East Beirut, where most of the Christians live, another swept through predominantly Muslim West Beirut, reclaiming neighborhoods that had been controlled by local militias since February. The army units converged on the "green line," the dread boundary splitting the city, and bulldozed its makeshift banks of dirt and rubble. The city's airport is scheduled to open this week...
...other areas of Eastern Europe, the Sephardim migrated to Israel from such diverse places as Morocco, Greece, Yemen and Iraq. Initially a minority (17% in 1948), the Sephardim now make up 55% of the population and about half the electorate. It is the Sephardic votes that in 1977 swept Begin to power. In the past seven years, the Sephardim, says Author Oz, "have risen from the emotional position of second-class citizens into the emotional state of owners of the country" (see following story...
...this time the women of Bomburbia were changing. The housewives of Cushwa Drive had divorced or taken jobs, and Bombeck, somewhat ironically, was almost the last stay-at-home mom left on the block. The winds of feminism had swept through town, ruffling feathers. One evening, Bombeck recalls, she drove into town with some other women to hear a lecture by Betty Friedan, author of The Feminine Mystique. "She started talking about yellow wax buildup and all that, and all of us started laughing." Friedan shook her finger and scolded them; these were supposed to be demeaning concerns, not funny...
Everyone on deck was catapulted into the dark, heaving sea. "As she went under I levered myself onto the rail and was swept clear as she went under me," Sefton remembers. "As I stood on the poop rail I thought, 'Jump!' I went under water for a few seconds. A life raft was 30 ft. away. I thought, 'Oh God, swim!' " The orange rafts were designed to eject and inflate automatically in an emergency, and they did. Clifton McMillan, 16, of Fairfield, Conn., who had just finished his watch when the squall hit, managed to jump...