Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sajudis, which swept parliamentary elections in Lithuania in the spring and openly advocates independence, is "not prepared to sign a new agreement with the Soviet Union until the Soviet Union renounces our occupation," Juozaitis said...
...protests is a plan for restructuring the city council, put forward by Mayor Annette Strauss and the city council, that will be voted on in a special election this weekend. But black and Hispanic leaders say something more fundamental is also taking place. The civil rights movement that swept the South a generation ago somehow bypassed Dallas. Now, fueled by population shifts that have made blacks, Hispanics and Asians nearly half the population, the movement has finally arrived. Vows County Commissioner John Wiley Price, a black: "We're not going to sit back and let an Anglo minority continue...
Tinder-dry jack pines, white and black spruce, poplar and birch trees exploded in the heat as more than 3 million acres of Canadian timberland went up in smoke during the past two weeks. Some 4,400 fire fighters battled 560 lightning-ignited fires that swept across northern Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Ontario. "The whole north is virtually blowing up on us," sighed Albert Driedger, Manitoba's minister for emergency services. With high winds pushing dense smoke toward Indian reservations, provincial premier Gary Filmon declared a state of emergency...
...step would have been unthinkable a few decades ago, when Poland's Communist bosses did not hesitate to put Roman Catholic Primate Stefan Wyszynski under house arrest, imprison hundreds of priests and nuns, or confiscate scores of schools and convents. But last week all that was swept aside with a long-awaited, historic announcement. Resuming a "noble tradition of many centuries," the Holy See and Poland have re-established diplomatic relations, declared the official church communique, delicately omitting mention of less-than-noble events during the protracted ecclesiastical cold war with the nation's leaders that began...
...time at such altitudes, breathing air that contains less than half the oxygen at sea level, at temperatures that drop below -43 degrees F, in blinding blizzards that can last days. Both sides admit that 8 out of 10 casualties are caused by the harsh conditions -- including soldiers being swept away in cascades of snow or tumbling into crevasses. Says a Pakistani officer at the northern end of the Saltoro sector: "We are brave. They are brave. And we both face the same enemies: the weather and the altitude...