Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Secretary Ron Ziegler briskly announced each day which heads will roll in the President's pruning of the bureaucracy. Last week alone the count of important resignations accepted reached 17, bringing the overall total to nearly 60. Not in memory had a U.S. President made such a clean sweep of his own appointments...
...specialities, the 200-yd, Breast stroke and the 200-yd individual medley. Freshmen Tom Wolf, who set a University record in the 200-yd, back stroke in his first varsity leads it straight back contingent, but John Craig and Roy Geronomous may have to work slightly harder for a sweep in the butterfly...
...sabre men, who, had they not lost three straight 5-4 decisions in the second round, would have had an equally impressive record. As it was, the sabre squad took two out of three bouts in the first round, and bounced back from the second round debacle to sweep three straight in round three to give Harvard the team victory. The sabre squad won five out of nine bouts in the afternoon...
...time Eastern prop diving champion, freshman Dave English, may make the Crimson diving both more palatable to watch and more productive on the scoreboard. Junior John Zakotnik, who came on strong late last year, continues to improve rapidly and the English-Zakotnik combination may have the talent to sweep several meets...
...experience of almost dying, and presumably of dying itself, often includes three phases that he calls resistance, life review and transcendence. In the first phase, a person faced with the apparent certainty of sudden death struggles frantically against both the external danger (for instance, a current that threatens to sweep him away as he swims) and a strange longing to surrender to the danger and let himself die. When there seems to be no further chance of survival, his fear disappears and he welcomes death. That strange emotion was experienced by Literary Patron Caresse Crosby. Recalling her rescue from drowning...