Word: swept
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...Troubles erupted early in January in a series of protests that swept across the country with surprising ferocity. First, high school students upset over the rumored imposition of new examination fees stormed the streets of Marrakesh. Then the riots quickly spread from that cosmopolitan southern city to the far poorer Mediterranean north. Protesters included students free on New Year's vacations, young people out of work, housewives and others fearful of a new round of government austerity measures that would mean hikes in food and fuel prices. Before a precarious order was restored, the government had called...
...17th century for traces of anti-Semitism evident in the dealings of money-changers who cheated their Jewish customers by giving them worthless coins. Rogers also recommends the materials from the Bancroft Collection on the South Sea Bubble, which include posters, pamphlets, and books chronicling the speculative main which swept through England in the 1720's, when lots of financiers invested their money in tulips. "There's always something to be learned from this sort of history," she adds...
Heiden, who swept five speed-skating gold medals, chose not to capitalize beyond a few polite nods here and there. His sport is as obscure as ever. Even though the U.S. has won 16 speed-skating gold medals, including the first one, by Charles Jewtraw in 1924, few Americans are stirred by so much gliding and arm swinging. Terry McDermott, the skating barber of 1964, and Sheila Young, a highlight of 1976, came around (and around) without cutting any lasting...
...take off and go where you want, you can go through trees. It's magic." Last season had been forecast as a watershed year for Coor per, but it was McKinney who made history. During 16 years of World Cup competition, only twice before had one country swept the overall titles, and no American woman had ever won. McKinney beat Hanni Wenzel. In all the Olympics, U.S. women Alpine skiers have gathered twelve medals, with Gretchen Fraser (1948), Andrea Mead Lawrence (1952) and Barbara Ann Cochran (1972) earning gold...
...Harvard wrestling team finished its pre-exam schedule with a 28-18 loss in Springfield College yesterday at the IAB. Rick Beller and Co-Captains Sean Wallance and Barry Bausano notched the Crimson's only wins. Dan Medalic managed a tie, while the visitors swept the other six weight classes. Harvard's record...