Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rebirth and peril: midnight Mass. Though most Poles were at that moment in their own parish churches, the broadcast from Cracow's Wawel Cathedral, the former seat of Archbishop Karol Wojtyla, was a telling concession from the country's atheist government to the changes that have swept the land in the past four months. As if the Mass were not unusual enough, Pope John Paul II-who after his election two years ago was denied his wish to send an uncensored Christmas message to his home archdiocese-was accorded twelve minutes on both Christmas Eve and Christmas...
...Kosygin by appearances. In spite of his characteristically hangdog expression, he had been capable of driving as hard a bargain as any Soviet leader since Joseph Stalin. Equally tough and tenacious in the Kremlin corridors of power, Kosygin was unsurpassed in his ability to sidestep the purges that had swept away other Soviet leaders of his generation. Justifiably, he earned a reputation as the U.S.S.R.'s great survivor...
...freshman from Medfield, who played seven years for a Needham men's league, deftly slipped by the lone defenseman, swept in on the goal, threw a mind-boggling deke, and flipped the puck past Crimson netminder Cheryl Tate for the gamewinner...
Harvard's domination of the meet was not nearly as complete as it might have been, but only because coach Joe Bernal used some of the races to experiment and swam exhibition entries in six of them. For instance, the Crimson would have swept the 200-yd. backstroke had not top finisher Courtney Roberts been an unofficial entrant...
...photo finish in the half-mile; Kristen Linsley took the mile in a near-personal record time of 4:55, with Mary Herlihy close behind; and the trio of Ellen Gallagher, Wiley McCarthy and Anita Diaz had a cross-country reunion at the finish line as they swept...