Word: swept
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...Allies had regained a great deal since the darkest days of 1941 and early 1942, when the Germans' panzer divisions swept to within 40 miles of Moscow and their Japanese allies struck at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Malaya. The hitherto invincible Japanese navy had been checked at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Soviets held fast at Stalingrad, and the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa that autumn inspired Churchill to say that although victory there might not be the beginning of the end, it was perhaps "the end of the beginning...
...themselves for violence. Small wonder: the nuns had signed up to serve as poll watchers in the northern town of Vigan, where for decades local thugs have rigged elections with intimidating tactics that would make a Mafioso blush. But throughout the day, the women stood firm. When the mayor swept up to a polling center with three Jeepfuls of cronies armed with fraudulent ballots, Sister Teresita Felicitas blocked their way. Elsewhere, when a young tough ordered Sister Proxedor to leave her poll-watching center, she stood her ground and prayed. And as soon as the polls closed, a platoon...
...Supreme Court has never established a specific test that defines the constitutional right to effective legal representation in criminal cases. But last week the court finally set forth its guiding principles and swept away a variety of state and lower federal court standards that had grown up in the absence of a firm ruling from the high bench. The landmark that David Washington helped establish, however, did not save him. His death sentence stands...
...third-seeded Crimson placed second behind Maine in last year's double-elimination tourney, but this time things could be different. The 27-4 batmen swept easily through the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League this year, while last season's squad didn't clinch the league crown until the last game of the year...
Kandell, whose years with the New York Times were spent covering the paroxysms of violence which swept Argentina, Chile and Uruguay in the early 1970's, is obviously happy to emphasize the hopeful side of the continent's recent history. However, his optimism looks not to the past, but the future. The book takes the reader along an imaginary road, five thousand miles along-a crescent along the fringes of the Amazon watershed. The road was sketched out by Peruvian President Belaunde, for whom it was part of a vision of a prosperous, developed core of a continent that would...