Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hours; in parts of Orange County to the south, one-half inch fell in only eight minutes. The downpours weakened dams, washed out roads, and unleashed murderous mud slides. Three-year-old John Price was crushed to death in his bedroom when a 300-ft.-wide wall of mud swept down a hillside and crashed into his parents' Clear Lake home. Alviso, a low-lying San Jose neighborhood, was suddenly transformed into a 6-ft.-deep lake when floodwaters overflowed the banks of a nearby creek. Said San Jose Fire Department Captain Jerry Hubbard: "The rain filled Alviso like...
While Proulx held onto his lead, the players couldn't hold to their equipment. At various times during the rough and tumble contest, players lost three helmets, two sticks and two gloves on the ice. Play turned sloppy, bodies swept the wet ice and cheap shots made their marks on both teams. It will be a bruised and bandaged Providence squad that takes the ice against the Crimson tonight...
...weeks ago, when Jernigan topped Boyum, 3-0, to become the National champion. This time, the duo--known to opponents as the best one-two combination in squash, went to four games, as Jernigan took the first, 18-16, Boyum won the second, 16-18, and Jernigan swept the last...
...phemomenon is not original to the Reagan administration. More than one president has swept into office on a wave of anti-govenment sentiment. When Carter arrived in the capital, his keen distrust of the natives undobtedly miffed more than one D.C. veteran. But Reagan's attacks on government cut deeper-they denounce not merely the efficiency but the very raison d'etre of fistfuls of government agencies...
U.A.B. had been on the "problem list" of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation throughout 1982. In November more than 200 federal bank examiners swept into all five of Butcher's banks, as well as 24 smaller banks controlled by his brother C.H. Says Stephen Woodrough, the FDIC regional counsel in Atlanta: "We wanted to see how much bad paper was really there. The situation at U.A.B. was very, very grave indeed." The FDIC concluded that $90 million in loans should be written...