Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...words and deeds had brought fear to people from Murmansk to Lands End to Jamestown, N.Y. Now they were just an odd and seedy assortment of soldiers, rowdies, bureaucrats and bourgeois, who hardly looked important enough to have provoked the heavy wave of hatred, disgust and indignation which had swept them to the prisoners...
...jeans and Levi jacket draped over a chair. From just [off screen], little bleating sounds of passion, at once ladylike and sensual. Now PAN ON OVER TO the bed and FIND Hilary and a young man locked in naked and breathless embrace. As Hilary is swept... from passion to frenzy that approaches violence, biting and clawing at the young man in bed with her, GO TO [a jet plane] firing up with a great, pulsing roar...
...career would furnish the plot for a 19th century novel: patience rewarded, prevalence over adversity. In the '50s Barbara Pym was a thriving author of well-made English novels. The Swinging Sixties, which got their early momentum in London, swept her out of style. It was not until 1977, when both Poet Philip Larkin and Biographer Lord David Cecil mentioned her in a Times Literary Supplement survey of unjustly neglected writers, that anyone cared to deal with a Pym manuscript. But Larkin and Cecil, literary mandarins though they were, turned out to have their fingers on the public pulse...
...meet held yesterday at Van Cortlandt Park, in the Bronx, NY the Harvard men's cross country team swept both Columbia and Penn harriers by perfect scores of 15 50, with nine Crimson runners crossing the finish line before any opponents...
...routine exercise in humiliation by placing me at the mercy of either their effusive kindness or blackhearted contempt. One garrulous shopkeeper held me captive with a rapid-fire series of cheerful comments and questions, most of which flew past my comprehension. A neighboring grocer whacked my hand and swept me out of the store when I squeezed a tomato. The fact that I was unable to find simple and moderate good-naturedness among the Parisians left me Jangled and teary-eyed at the end of each...