Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tennis Connection and a place advertising CANDLES IN SHAPES YOU NEVER THOUGHT OF. There, the urban dropouts learn the value of independent thought, honest employment and all-natural fabrics. They also can identify suburbanites: "It looked like an oversized praying mantis, and it flowed like a surfer. As it swept nearer, Teresa saw it was somebody in cutoffs and knee warmers, a girl because she had an elastic top. She was riding a skateboard and wearing headphones clamped over both ears. She looked like . . . something intelligent but brutal from science fiction." Peck, 48, an American who attended Oxford, echoes...
There were other such reminders on that anniversary day. In the early morning hours, the authorities moved into Warsaw's Victory Square and, for the fifth time since May, swept away the 40-ft. flower cross that serves as a popular memorial to the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. By the time official military ceremonies began at noon at the adjacent Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw residents had already begun to rebuild their cross. While government delegations laid wreaths to the solemn beat of drums, several hundred people gathered around the new cross, praying, flashing V signs and singing...
Whether or not the Polish people dare respond to that call with widespread demonstrations, knowing that their jobs may be at stake, they have already made it clear that they are resigned neither to martial law nor to the permanent end of the democratic "renewal" that swept their nation for 16 months...
...courtship of Iraqi Shi'ites, who make up 55% of the population, has blunted Khomeini's call for insurgency. But Saddam Hussein's ultimate test still lies ahead: both he and Khomeini realize that their bitter rivalry will be resolved only when one of them is swept from power. -By William Drozdiak. Reported by Dean Brelis/Baghdad and Raji Samghabadi/New York
...that little had changed. Before dawn on National Day, security forces destroyed a cross of evergreens and flowers that had been placed in Warsaw's Victory Square to honor Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Polish Primate who died last year. It was the fourth time that the authorities had swept away the cross. Later in the day, as special honor guards marched past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Victory Square, squads of the ZOMO security forces, who have frequently been used to break up demonstrations, waited in the side streets with their riot gear and water cannons. Said...