Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outlying working-class district of Milan, had been staked out by police of Italy's special antiterrorist squad. Visitors to the apartment were photographed as they entered the building and tailed as they left. Finally, the authorities were ready to strike. In a coordinated two-day sweep directed by Carlo Alberto Delia Chiesa, 58, a much-decorated carabinieri general, police arrested nine key members of the terrorist Red Brigades organization, broke into four of their hideouts and confiscated numerous arms and a wealth of material on terrorist activities...
...understand that, but the fact remains that you could line me up in a sweep that year against any of those guys--and I could run right past...
...best of five series now moves to the Smoggy City, where Tom Lasorda's crew hopes to complete their second consecutive playoff sweep and set up a probably World Series rematch with the Yankees...
...Pirates, who must sweep the fourgame weekend set with the Phils to clinch at least a tie for the title, ran their home winning streak to 24 games...
...sweep, which left the Pirates just two games shy of the all-time major league home winning streak set by the New York Giants in 1918, came before a crowd of 45,134, the biggest and loudest home crowd in a Pirate season marked by sparse attendance...