Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Haitians who saw little chance for improvement in their lives under Duvalier. The opposition movement was supported by the Roman Catholic Church, which since the 1983 visit of Pope John Paul II had protested Duvalier's indifference to the country's squalor. Last month a new wave of protests swept the country. Although Duvalier's troops and police maintained control of Port- au-Prince, much of the rest of the country was in open revolt...
...Dartmouth, Penn, and Princeton, this is a key Ivy weekend: any team that can engineer a sweep will move to the top of the pack; any team that is swept can start looking towards next season...
Harvard (5-15 overall, 1-7 Ivy after being swept last weekend by Columbia and Cornell) shot 26.5 percent from the floor in the second half against the Lions in the process of allowing the visitors to blow open a 45-43 ballgame and cruise home to a 60-49 victory...
However, the outstanding trio--which recorded a perfect 204-point score on the weekend--swept to a two-minute decision over the 15-kilometer course, to pull out a final 332-328 decision over the Polar Bears...
...heroin into the U.S. The jewel in the crown is the "Commission" trial, sometimes called "The Case of Cases," which is set to begin next month. In what could be the most significant assault on the infrastructure of organized crime since the high command of the Chicago Mafia was swept away in 1943, the dons of the five major Mafia families that dominate the East Coast are charged with operating a "ruling council" that controls a variety of illegal enterprises. The case, which Giuliani will try himself, uses the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act to prosecute an entire organization...