Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spectators rose as the black-robed chief justice and his two associates swept into the courtroom last night to rule whether the Divine Light Institute, a school practicing racial discrimination for religious reasons, should be granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service...
...barrio on the northern outskirts of San Salvador, a community of muddy streets, tin-roofed houses and open cooking fires, the people recall how the army swept through last month, apparently on a hunt for left-wingers. When the troops left, at least 19 people were dead. "You heard the trucks pull up," said a stout woman frying vegetables in a pan over a wood stove. "The dogs started to bark. The soldiers came marching fast down the streets. They banged on doors, and they dragged people out." It is a litany that could also describe the raids of many...
ATHENS, Ga.--The winter blizzards that temporarily shut down scores of campuses and even delayed the beginning of the new term at others swept away something different at the University of Georgia: dining hall trays...
...love you, in Welsh) proclaimed Elizabeth Taylor, 50, arms outstretched, as she swept across the stage of London's Duke of York's Theater toward her two-time former husband Richard Burton, 56. Burton, who was giving a reading from Dylan Thomas, cooed back: "Say it again, my petal. Say it again." The lady complied, and lo, with all the eye-rolling gaucherie of a Groucho Marx-Margaret Dumont coupling, LizanDick were, gasp, together again. She was in London for the West End run of her Broadway hit The Little Foxes. At a lavish 50th birthday party thrown...
Several friends and professors of the New York-raised Shelton expressed shock last night when told of his death, though one friend said rumors had swept Langdell Library late last night that Shelton had died in an apparent suicide...