Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officials is Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, who has since presided over a dramatic revision of China's policies in education, science and technology. Now, Teng seems to be intensifying the attempt to dislodge the "remnant poison" of the old radical faction that has resisted the sweep toward moderation. Says one Hong Kong analyst: "There are still plenty of people sitting around in various places who did in other people in the past. Teng and his boys want to settle scores with them...
Adding a post-Watergate touch, the Pope decreed that the Camerlengo and his assistants, along with two technicians using "modern equipment," must periodically sweep the entire conclave premises and all who have been admitted to them for "technical instruments of whatsoever kind for the recording, reproduction or transmission of voices and images." Anyone found possessing such a device was to be expelled from the conclave forthwith and subjected to "grave penalties" to be determined by the future Pope...
...demise of the Free-World-leading Red Sox at the hands of none other than the Yankees and Brewers. Well, Somebody up there clearly has a bone to pick with us (it could have something to do with missing Mass last week), 'cause the locals turned right around to sweep the New Yorkers and take two of three from the bloated beer-swillers from the Great Midwest. And all you Don Zimmer fans out there had a chance to chuckle and shine up your magnetic baseball caps and write us nasty letters about how maybe we should take lessons from...
Still, the Reds are in contention in the National League West, where a fine pennant race is shaping up with the surprising San Francisco Giants, leaders for most of the season, and the Los Angeles Dodgers, all within a series sweep of each other. Cincinnati's sturdy bullpen has helped save the day, and Rose is trying harder than ever, disregarding a bad shoulder and a gimpy knee. Says Rose, who separated from his wife this summer: "Nobody has as many personal problems as I have, and I think I have as many injuries as anybody. But I play...
...much misery as they can this weekend, when they entertain Zim's steely crew out in the city that made beer famous. The Brewers are the principal beneficiaries of the home-towner's El Foldo act, and could pull within a half-game of first place if they sweep the three-game set. Watch for Cecil Cooper, erstwhile Bosox first-baseman who went out to Diaryland in the infamous George "Two-Outs-for-the-Price-of-One" Scott trade, to do some heavy-duty slugging, making the Sox management wish they had left the Boomer and his high-priced...