Word: swept
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Given the area's background of sectarian violence, the possibility that the Copts could be swept under by a tide of Islamic fundamentalism seems less remote than before. But the Copts have shown a gift for survival. As one elderly Copt puts...
...seized was Xu Wenli, 36, a railway electrician who had edited the April 5th Forum and was one of the democracy movement's most articulate spokesmen. Neither Xu nor any of the others has been seen or heard from. In the weeks that followed that roundup, provincial police swept down on various other editors outside Peking, putting an estimated 50 of them into custody. The government has continued to arrest other activists...
John McEnroe swept confidently past Bjorn Borg in four sets yesterday to take his third straight United States Open championship and establish himself as the undisputed king of men's tennis...
There are three North Carolinas. The coastal east runs flat and sandy; the Blue Ridge west rises velvety and mountainous. Most populous is the middle Piedmont, a plateau of gentle undulations and pine forests. Scotch-Irish settlers swept onto the Piedmont in 1736. Six years later, two Helms brothers, George and Tillman, were farming on a plot deep in the colony. Before long, there were Helmses all over the place. On the solitary road from Wadesboro to Charlotte, just as the piny hills begin puckering up, grew Union County and the town of Monroe...
Spirits quickened in Poland once again last week as the country was swept anew by the euphoria and the unease that have characterized so much of the past year. The independent labor federation Solidarity celebrated the first anniversary of its recognition by the Polish government and proceeded to hold its first national congress. The Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party met to denounce Solidarity and some of its latest efforts for reform. And lest the aggressive unionists forget the facts of Polish geography, the Soviet Union staged military maneuvers off Poland's northeastern borders-a reminder to Solidarity...