Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson countered with a 3-0 sweep of the foil event. Foilsmen Merner, Stan Samkange and Dave Greenberg looked anything but inexperienced as they speedily stabbed their SMU opponents...
Harvard went on to sweep that epee round, 3-0, but then floundered through the last foil round, losing...
...mile, Eric Schuler and Bruce Weber placed second and third behind Murphy to engineer the fourth Crimson sweep of the day in the final individual event...
Walsh said the B.U. decision to make the meet a short course competition contributed to the Harvard loss. Indications of the Crimson's strength in longer races showed up in the Maureen Gildea-Terri Frick-Dove Scherr sweep of the 500-yd. free, and the Frick-Gildea finish in the 200-yd. freestyle...
...grim story has been told before, but never with such sweep and grieving comprehension. Part of the reason is new information, part is the skill and lineage of the author. Thomas Pakenham's mother, the Countess of Longford, is the biographer of Victoria and Wellington. His sister is Antonia Fraser, biographer of Cromwell, Mary Queen of Scots and Charles II. Pakenham was able to prowl the great houses of Britain in search of long-lost letters, papers and diaries, took time to learn Dutch and Afrikaans, and early in his eight years of research recorded the memories...