Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Proell disdains such caution and her total abandon has already won her two World Cups. She is assured of a third before the spring thaw. This season she won all eight women's downhill races, becoming the world's first skier-male or female-to score a sweep in one of the three Alpine events.* In late December, she cracked Jean-Claude Killy's record of 18 World Cup race victories: as of last week, she had won 28, making her, at age 19, the winningest cup skier...
Penn, with a totally unexpected 1-2-3 sweep, picked up a large chunk of 41 points and gained 32 points on Harvard to tie the Crimson for second with 187 points apiece. Tom Wolf, after lowering his Harvard record to 1:57.343 in the afternoon heats in qualifying fourth, switched to the unfamiliar and questionably legal roll turns the other backstrokers were getting away with, but faded to sixth in the final with a disappointing...
Britain's Anthony Sampson forecasts a dramatically revised political map of Europe. It might shape up as "a world of multinational corporations, making a technological sweep through Europe as another Holy Roman Empire." Central governments would shrink; neglected provinces would return "to their historic roles as the heart of Europe. Alsace, as it once was, could become a separate entity equal to Paris." In this vision of provinces as power blocs, forgotten regions would become a kind of European Third World, playing off the central bureaucracy in Brussels against their own national capitals. The Scots, in fact, have already...
...sweep of the subpoenas brought a sharp retort from news executives. New York Times Publisher Arthur Ochs Sulzberger said: "The Times will take all legal steps to have the subpoena quashed." Officials of TIME declared that such a sweeping subpoena is "an invasion" of Fischer's rights under the First Amendment. They explained that "While Time Inc.'s policy does not demand resistance to every subpoena of a newsman, the crucial factor here is that there has been no showing whatsoever that the documents and information demanded of Mr. Fischer are necessary to the resolution of the case...
...Saturday, the night before the final round, the Crimson racquetmen held a victory banquet celebrating their sweep of every match...