Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that time, word of the massacre had spread and panic swept through the camps. The throngs of refugees who had gathered at Gaza Hospital took off on foot to find shelter farther north. Along with them went 45 patients from the hospital, who fled their beds and joined the exodus. For a time, said a European staffer who remained behind, "it was deadly, deadly silent." Some survivors, meanwhile, later recalled seeing Christian militiamen operating a roadblock near the southern entrance to the camps, while hundreds of Israeli soldiers stood...
...Monday morning, as the cleanup of the massacre began, one final moment of panic swept the camps. While volunteer civil defense workers dug a huge pit near the entrance of Shatila to bury the dead, word spread that the militiamen were returning. Thousands of screaming Palestinians poured out of the camps and ran toward downtown Beirut. It is one thing to have escaped a massacre. It is quite another to escape the memory of it. -By George Russell. Reported by Roberto Suro/Beirut
When the votes were tallied in the Sunday election, Palme had won what some observers called his "first real victory" in 13 years as party leader. The Social Democrats swept back to power by winning 166 seats against a combined total of 163 seats for the three-party non-Socialist bloc...
Houses were ripped from their foundations, and residents suffocated in their beds. Antoniel Garcia, a truck driver was awakened in time to pull his family to safety on the roof of his house. He watched as successive torrents swept cars, furniture and screaming townspeople into a nearby ravine "It will take months to find all the bodies," he said. By week's end estimates of the dead exceeded 300 in that region of the country...
...Supreme Court ruling, which may not be handed down for several months, could affect almost every state in the nation. If the court backs Grendel's with a broadly defined ruling that church-related liquor-free zones are unconstitutional, as many as 40 state laws would be swept away...