Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years or so, Harvard football fans have been able to rely on certain recurring themes. Every year, Harvard would recruit enough talent to play in the Big Ten, and the freshmen coaches and the various local diversions would waste it. Coach John Yovicsin consistently stayed with his dive, sweep, incompletion offense, and if the defense was good, the Crimson would plod to a three-way tie for second...
...remained the same in Cambridge this year was the police, who "kept 'em moving" in the Square on weekend nights, who made sure they maintained high visibility at all times, and who one weekday early in the summer arrested 30 freaks on charges of drunkenness in a late-night sweep through the Square...
...Northern California, Oregon and Washington, where headlands sweep down to meet the pounding surf of the Pacific, the coastline is relatively pristine. But change may be coming: flotsam from paper mills has already fouled Washington's Bellingham Bay, electric companies dream of huge atomic plants cooled by the waters from the ocean, and developers see the region as a site for endless rows of vacation homes...
Verdi: Aida (RCA, 3 LPs; $17.98). Erich Leinsdorf's conducting recalls the dramatic sweep of Toscanini. Gorgeous sound from the London Symphony Orchestra, with Leontyne Price at her recent best in the title role, and Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Grace Bumbry and Ruggero Raimondi at their all-time grandest in support...
...search for the young grenadiers was more thorough and more brutal than any previous Israeli sweep. Green-bereted border police, rough Druze rather than Hebrew, came to help; incidents mounted until one officer and what the army described as "a number of soldiers" were charged with unnecessary brutality toward Arab civilians in the course of their searches. Informers eventually turned up Mahmoud Slieman Zak, who had been paid $28 to toss the grenade. Israel rarely invokes the death penalty, so the boy was sentenced to seven life terms plus 50 years. Mahmoud showed little emotion until the judge said that...