Word: swept
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...third inning of the nightcap, storms swept the field and the Crimson was building an early lead. Elliott Rivera singled to right, Bauer doubled to left, and Farrell, who went four-for-seven on the day, came through with the RBIs once again. The senior first baseman belted a double to center that scored both runners. Farrell moved to third when Martelli flew out, then scored on a Baldocchi-passed ball to lift the batmen to a 3-0 advantage. Harvard, 5-3 at Annapolis, Md. Harvard 200 030 0--5 6 1 Navy...
...nervous residents of Hattiesburg, Miss., watched on Wednesday afternoon, the skies blackened and pounding sheets of rain began to fall. Kimberly Marks, 7, stepped off a school bus, walked down the street and was swept away by a juggernaut of water. Her body, coated with debris, was recovered on Thursday. She was one of at least ten who died in a series of thunderstorms that began in the Gulf of Mexico and caused the worst floods in 20 years in parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. An estimated 30,000 people, 25,000 from Louisiana alone, were evacuated...
RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH was a very happy man Monday night. His movie Gandhi, a celebration of the life of the Indian leader for indepedence. Mahatma Gandhi, swept eight major Academy Awards, leaving Steven Spielberg, director of E.T., the Extra-Terrestrial, and Sydney Pollack, the director of Tootsie, a little flat-footed and gaping. They weren't the only ones; plenty of T.V.-watchers were bewildered as well after three hours of watching their favorites bypassed time after time...
...Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth. The book is surprisingly anti-Mead. Although Freeman claims his book is only a formal refutation of Mead's work, it is unfortunately much more than that. Like far too many social and hard scientists, Freeman has been caught up in and swept away by ideological debates from which he should have been free. The debate, once again, is nature versus nurture. In contrast to Mead's strong concern with cultural forces, Freeman greatly emphasizes the general biological uniformity of all human beings. As he admits, the book is not only about Samoa...
...when Edward Seaga and his moderate Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) swept into office in an election marked by violence and discord, a sign of relief sounded in Washington and in the boardrooms of many multinational corporations. Seaga won on a platform promising the redirection of Jamaica's economy along lines favorable to foreign investment, especially American, and the revitalization of the private sector on the troubled island. What pleased Washington even more than the JLP's repentant capitalist slogans was that --temporarily at least--the election did away with Michael Manley and his People's National Party...