Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...traditional Ivy standards Harvard has exceptional strength and experience at five and six with Randy Barnett and co-captain Chris Nielson, but both will be decided underdogs, and the even with Lindner healthy, the Crimson will probably need a sweep in doubles to win the match...
...League schools completed a sweep of the two backstroke races as Princeton's Charlie Campbell won the 200-yd, back. Paul Gilbert of Yale had earlier taken first in the 100-yd, version, Campbell, like Gilbert, set a new American record in this event. His time, 1:50.55, was two seconds under his Eastern clocking...
...almost aggressively, brushed in. One page shows the woman with a seven-headed dragon from the Book of Revelations, "clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars." The design, compressed into a few square inches, has a marvelous sweep-the rockfolds echoing the curve of the dragon's tail and repeated in the pink folds of cloth on the woman's gravid belly...
With only Brumwell entered, the Harvard contingent could relax and watch some great swimmers perform. In the evening finals of the 400-yd. IM, Indiana's Gary Hall completed his IM sweep with another fine performance. Swimming the distance in 3:58.71, Hall fell less than .5 second off his own American record...
...parallels what one feels at a revival meeting. She doesn't get up and cry "Right On!" (which she suspects is already passé) like the girl down front, she doesn't hop up and shout "Yes, sister, yes!" But she feels this powerful thing happening, this sweeping, surging, gathering-up-momentum feeling of intense camaraderie, solidarity movement. Action. Yes, sister, yes. All of which is pretty damned strange-she has never been much of a one for sisterly activities, and she largely disagrees with what it seems to her the voices from the platform are suggesting...