Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...confessed to complicity in the killings, plus FBI ballistics and fingerprint evidence, the judge said that Salvadoran justice demanded additional proof. Three days later, it was announced that the president of a Salvadoran human rights commission, a 34-year-old woman, had been killed during an army counterinsurgency sweep...
Mahre wins third World Cup; McKinney nears a U.S. sweep...
When he wrote Peer Gyntin 1867, Ibsen did not dream that his epic poem would ever be performed onstage. Uncut, it contains five acts and 38 scenes. Its panoramic sweep embraces four continents: Europe, Africa, North America and Asia. The action unfolds on mountain crests and sun-bleached deserts, within limpid fjords and amid howling sea storms. These requirements have proved daunting to most productions, except that in recent decades stage technology has become much more sophisticated. So has the audience, schooled by the movies' crosscutting and swift evolution of scenes...
...victory completed a four-title sweep never before accomplished. Harvard has now won the Nationals, the Ivies, the Intercollegiates and the nine...
...team as a whole has also been hot. Aside from a near-sweep victory of the ECAC's, the netmen garnered top honors three weeks ago at the four-team Minnesota Tennis Showcase, hosted by the University of Minnesota...