Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sikhs were killed in massacres following Indira Gandhi's murder. As Sikhs in New Delhi and elsewhere huddled in their homes, fearful of another murderous backlash, security forces sealed highways into and out of the city and subjected plane, train and bus passengers to careful searches. Police swept through ten Sikh temples in New Delhi, hunting for suspects. Some 200 Sikhs were detained in New Delhi; 600 more were arrested in sweeps in Haryana and Punjab...
...Crimson enters the game with the confidence that comes from winning 13 straight and 23 of its last 25 contests. More importantly, after losing three of its first eight league games. Harvard swept its last 10 to force the playoff...
Most of the Christians had fled inland to the Christian stronghold of Jezzine and south to the Israeli security zone before the advancing militias swept into their villages. Christian leaders, however, claimed that 70 people, mainly the elderly who stayed behind, had been slaughtered. Indeed, the invaders, in the first flush of victory, shot at anything that moved, including dogs and donkeys...
...gentrification of Boot Key Marina has begun. At the end of March the Pluhars sold it to a man named John Theurer. Rumor swept through Marathon that the selling price was over $2 million. Nobody knew much about the buyer. Up and down Highway 1, in the banks and the bars and the early-morning breakfast places, people were telling one another that he was part of the Theurer family that had made its money in truck- trailer manufacturing. "To be fair, no one knows what he is going to do with the marina," said a longtime resident, sitting...
...exhortations were new. During his 15-month tenure, Andropov addressed many of the same issues and proposed the same solutions that his protege is now advocating. There were warnings in Moscow that Gorbachev would soon reintroduce another Andropov tactic, a crackdown on the endemic problem of alcoholism. Rumors have swept the capital that vodka will be rationed in the future...