Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...near dawn and La Nativité, a rickety 30-ft. wooden sailboat crammed with 63 Haitian refugees, was bobbing to ward the Florida coast near Fort Lauderdale. Winds of up to 30 m.p.h. lashed the sea, and waves as high as 5 ft. swept over the homemade vessel. Less than 60 yds. from land, La Nativité was suddenly swamped and its passengers spilled into the sea. Only when survivors, dazed and tearful, were spotted wandering the high way near the wealthy town of Hillsboro Beach did residents realize what had happened. Soon police were dragging...
...figures poured out in a flood that swept away all doubt: when Ronald Reagan early last week conceded that the U.S. economy is once again in a recession, he was only recognizing reality. Statistics promptly showed sizable declines in industrial production and consumer spending, a September rate of housing starts that was the third lowest on record, a .6% third-quarter drop in total national output of goods and services and even an unexpectedly large $468 million third-quarter loss reported by that onetime paragon of profit, General Motors...
...rash of thefts of women's undergarments has swept the MIT campus this month, prompting the police there to organize a campus-wide search for the culprit based on a composite sketch of the man thought to be the perpetrator of the crimes...
...Harvard fullback Jim Callinan also loves to run against the Tigers. Last season he turned in the first 100-yard game of his college career, on a muddy, rain-swept field in New Jersey. And Saturday afternoon during Harvard's 17-17 tie with Princeton at Soldiers Field, the six-foot, one-inch, 210-pound senior did himself 90 better, setting a new Harvard record for carries, with 34, and rambling for the second highest yardage total in Crimson history, a sparkling 190 yards. He has no rushed for more than the length of a football field on three occasions...
...roots of the fundamentalist resurgence lie in the social dislocation that has swept the Arab world, and Egypt in particular, over the past two decades. Says...