Word: swept
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...raids were well coordinated. One evening in June, 50 Brazilian federal agents in the southern state of Santa Catarina simultaneously swept down on the home of Lawyer Carlos Cesario Pereira, 40, a maternity hospital and a number of clandestine nurseries. Police recovered 20 children ranging in age from newborns to 3-year-olds, arrested seven suspects and detained 22 Israeli couples who were seeking to adopt children. The Israelis were later released because they apparently did not realize that the adoption proceedings might be illegal. Police claimed that Cesario was involved in the illegal adoption of Brazilian children by foreign...
...reasons that baffle scientists often congregate below pods of dolphins. More than 90% of the yellowfin caught by the U.S. tuna fleet last year were taken by "setting on porpoise," the practice of dropping nets where dolphins frolic on the surface. As a result, thousands of dolphins are swept into tuna nets each year. Many of them become entangled beneath the surface and, since they are air breathers, drown...
...distinctly Shakespearean augury when Typhoon Gading drowned Manila in torrential rains last week, sending coconut trees swaying wildly in the wind and plunging much of the city deep into darkness. For in recent weeks, tremors and uncertainties have had all of Philippine politics listing between tragedy and comedy, swept up in a whirlwind of coups rumored, imagined and aborted...
...best years, and the arrival of Don Baylor from the Yankees has added punch and the first sign of clubhouse leadership in anyone's memory. To the amazement of all, the Sox in a mid-June visit to Yankee Stadium, usually a favored site for the yearly crack-up, swept three games and in Baltimore mugged the surging Orioles three in a row. Said Oriole Manager Earl Weaver: "I'm going to jump in the pool and hope I don't come up," perhaps the first time that Weaver has ever threatened suicide before the All-Star break...
When Felipe Gonzalez Marquez's Socialists swept to power in 1982, a jubilant crowd of 4,000 supporters held a raucous celebration outside the party's election headquarters in Madrid. Fearing a violent rightist reaction, Gonzalez urged his supporters to keep cool, saying, "We don't want any saviors with machine guns." Some went to bed that night fearing that the army might try to seize power...