Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ball back with 4:53 left in the quarter and jitterbugged down the field on its best ball-control drive of the year. Callinan, Cuccia (65 yards rushing on 17 carries) and Jim Acheson (11 for 69) shared the load, rolling 67 yards on 13 consecutive runs before Acheson swept around left end for the score with 1:13 elapsed in the fourth quarter. Villanueva's PAT made it 27-3. Ho-hum, ballgame...
...Crimson ruggers also swept through Princeton's B and C squads. The B side won 3-0, and the C side added a 12-0 thrashing...
...appear to be the emerging leader of the Arab world. In addition, he was infuriated by the repeated calls by Khomeini to his fellow Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq, who form 55% of the country's population, to overthrow their President. Saddam was convinced that Iran, swept by revolution, would be unable to resist an Iraqi attack. But the war became one cause in which the multifarious factions of Iran could unite. Explains one Iranian officer: "The war is a black-and-white situation. You need not make any agonizing choices...
...outdated as it is voluminous-at least for protecting high-rises. The law does not adequately take into account the combustibility of new plastics that fill modern office towers, or the toxicity of their combustion products-factors that are now thought responsible for the ferocity of the fireball that swept through the MGM Grand Hotel last November, killing 84 people...
...warning was prophetic. The number of cases quickly mounted. No cure was at hand. Rumors of its causes swept the country, particularly in Spain's Old Castile and other central provinces, where the outbreak was most severe. At one point, it was reported that strawberries and green vegetables might be responsible. Sales of asparagus and strawberries plummeted, and thousands of pounds of both had to be destroyed. Other rumors blamed birds, dogs and cats for the contamination, and frantic families put hundreds of pets to death. Because the first cases were reported near the U.S. airbase at Torrejon...