Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's diving turned out to be as strong as ever as it swept its events, too. Sophomore standout Jennifer Goldberg took the three-meter event and freshman Shanon Byrd walked away with the one meter event...
Harvard was also successful in the shorter distances. The Crimson train of senior Dwayne Jones, freshman Chris Albridge, and sophomore Jim Herberich swept the 600. However, the thinclads did not do so well in the 500. Captain Scott Murrer and sophomore Steve Ezegi-Okoye got off to a slow start and despite a strong push at the end, neither of them could catch B.C. Captains Fred Kirk...
...year-old "Mula" Pisar, the terror began on June 22, 1941. On that day, after two years of Soviet occupation, "the bad was succeeded by the worst." Germany turned on its ally to the East and the Red Army crumbled under the onslaught. Nazi shock troops swept into Bialystok, the city with the second-largest Jewish population in Poland, and wasted no time implementing the Fubrer's plans. On the first Friday of the occupation, Pisar recalls, over a thousand Bialystok Jews were herded into the city's Great Synagogue, which was then set aflame. The following Sabbath, hundreds...
Security men swept Walesa up the stairs to his waiting wife Danuta. She quickly dispatched them with a bottle of vodka and the stern warning, "Don't you dare intern my husband again!" Then, before turning in for the night, Walesa pulled aside the living room draperies and flashed a defiant V-for-victory sign to cheering supporters. It was a scene both comic and joyful, but devoid of triumph. Walesa's independent union Solidarity, which was formally banned by the government on Oct. 8, lies in ruins...
Brezhnev had been plagued by illness since 1974. He suffered from heart disease. The list of maladies he was suspected of having included leukemia, cancer of the jaw, gout, emphysema and circulatory ailments. Several times during the past eight years, rumors of his death had swept through Western capitals after a faltering appearance or an unexpected absence from a meeting demanded by protocol. But in recent months he kept to a rigorous schedule of events. He even braved freezing temperatures for two hours early last week to review a Red Square parade. Thus the official announcement of his death three...