Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vibration triggered torrential mudslides, which swept over fertile farmland, burying hundreds of people and thousands of farm animals. Some locals were milking their cows when they heard the roar of the quake just after 5 a.m., and were able to escape the approaching mudslides. The small village of Sharora was not so lucky. The town was razed by a wall of mud up to 45 ft. high. With no hope of finding survivors, local officials decided to leave the village entombed. The estimated death toll of the Tadzhikistan quake...
...band because he was inspired by the enthusiasm and eagerness of members of the jazz band at Harvard. "The decision to form his band was made on the morning of a concert crowning his residency here at Harvard. As he was walking along the Charles, [Jacquet said he was] swept up in the `enthusiasm the young musicians demonstrated, [he] couldn't help being pleased by their eagerness,'" says an Office of the Arts release...
...Swept away were the infallibility of the Establishment, the virtues of sobriety and conformity, as well as Fred and Ginger, Lucy and Ricky, Mom and apple pie. The American empire was no longer propelled by imperial visionaries but rather by doubting, probing, experimenting empiricists. Assessing the message of The Graduate, film critic Stanley Kauffmann wrote, "Life, today, in our world, is not worth living unless one can prove it day by day, by values that ring true day by day." The Graduate was the top-grossing film...
...spasms seemed almost psychologically coordinated, as if a mysterious common impulse had swept through the nervous system of a global generation. The theme of the protests, and of the generation, was . . .what? To challenge authority. To change the world. To announce itself: Power to the imagination! Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre declared the upheaval "the extension of the limits of the possible." At Columbia University, Mark Rudd, a scion of Corporate America, borrrowed an epigram from the street poet LeRoi Jones (now Amiri Baraka): "Up against the wall, motherf*****, this is a stickup...
Like Boskin, economists of every stripe are grappling with the far- reaching changes that have swept the U.S. during the 1980s. Among them: the growing transformation of the world into a single, global marketplace in which the U.S. is just one player; the frightening decline of American competitiveness, which has helped turn the country into the world's biggest debtor; the runaway growth of U.S. service industries, which has made productivity and other important measures of the economy increasingly slippery to calculate...