Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sniper Shots. Though many independents stayed home or picketed peacefully, the week leading up to the settlement exploded in violence as the more mindless owner-drivers tried to sweep the highways clear of trucks by intimidating nonstriking truckers. One driver, Claudie Nix, 50, was fatally shot in his moving truck near Bridgeville, Del.; earlier, another driver was killed when a large rock was thrown at his windshield and his truck crashed. Other truckers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds; the most recent victim was Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove...
...Last week ABC Television presented Can Ellen Be Saved?, a TV movie that depicted an aggressive, doctrinaire Jesus sect called the Children of Jesus. The fictitious sect was obviously a thinly disguised counterpart of the real-life Children of God, complete with a West Coast farming commune, buses that sweep into cities to pick up new converts, biblical aliases for the members and a frank affection for the money and property gleaned from converts...
With a 20-point, 15-rebound performance guaranteed from Ron Haigler every night, and the best of Philadelphia's b-ball intelligentsia, the Quakers require only a modicum of coaching genius to sweep the league...
...haven't seen that kind of sweep in 22 years of coaching," coach Edo Marion said yesterday. "And only two of the nine bouts were even close...
...addition to Rutledge's 3-0 sweep, Stephen Hobbes won both his matches, and Loren Joseph and Michael Szymonifka each split theirs...