Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second down, Keys swept around left end, but Harvard safety Bobby Frame came up and made a solo tackle for a 1-yd. loss. On third down, Penn signal-caller Malcolm Glover tried to sneak into the end zone on a keeper, but defensive tackle John Sparks pursued the Penn quarterback and tackled him on the 2-yd. line. Fourth down brought more of the same, with Keys trying to find some room off left tackle and seeing "only a sea of Crimson...
...sailor on the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Carl Vinson was swept overboard and drowned in the Pacific...
...pledges. But change -- radical change, unimaginable change -- is coming to East Germany one way or another, and some think it will not stop until it has redrawn the boundaries of the country. The tide of events is washing away leaders and eroding the ideology of a rigidly orthodox state. Swept away too are many of the old certainties that have given shape and substance to the division of Europe settled at Yalta. Among them is the central and long- standing assumption, in Moscow as well as in the West, that two Germanys are a long-term if not permanent feature...
Schabowski, the East Berlin party chief and aleading reform advocate, gave no timetable ordetails, and said the party would not embark onsuch a course "with the suicidal notion that itcould be swept from the political stage...
Democrats swept the major contests in yesterday's off-year elections, just one year after an embarrassing loss in the presidential campaign...