Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson demolished B.C. in the field events, allowing its opponents only one first-place finish while claiming on sweep in one event, two 1-2 finishes and a first and third in the long jump...
...winds from blowing it into dust storms. All this can be done, says Colony, with minimal harm to the delicate ecology of the semi-arid region. Environmentalists wonder whether all companies would be so careful. If they were not, occasional rains would leach residual salts out of the wastes, sweep them into streams, and thus contaminate the area's precious water supplies...
...foil action, it was Howie Weiss that led the way with a sweep of his three bouts. Weiss has been a solid performer for the team all season. Tom Sharpe took care of two of his three opponents, while John Major had a single...
Leon Sharpe and Fletcher Newton--Vanderpool-Wallace's jumping mates--will be counted on to help him sweep the Mules in the long and triple jump...
...matron, a grandmother probably, every day at 1:45 removes herself to a corner to change. She takes off her white attendant's uniform, steps into a long purple acetate dress and fastens a single strand of pearls. At 1:48 she begins to sweep again. She times the sweep to a rhythmic chant that does not vary from day to day. "Two o'clock, pool closes, hurry up please...