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Word: sweep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...couple of years this fall's World Series will be remembered as the Popsicle Classic, as the cold Walrus-type weather and the even colder businesslike style of the Cincinnati Reds characterized the first four game sweep of the fall classic since the Baltimore Orioles Sandy Koufax into a Jewish joke...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Seeing Red(S) | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

...most unfortunate aspect of this series, however, was not the fact that Curt Gowdy wasn't broadcasting it, but rather that the Reds' sweep did not do justice to a solid and deep Yankee ball club which had won 94 games during the season with a balanced, consistent attack...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Seeing Red(S) | 10/22/1976 | See Source »

...this point, however, the Tufts coach, hard-pressed by scheduling difficulties, insisted that the players move to the more spacious outdoor courts. By a strange coincidence Tufts then went on to sweep three of the remaining four wind-swept matches...

Author: By Thomas A.J. Mcginn, | Title: Racquetwomen Battle Tufts, Weather; Lose to Both | 10/15/1976 | See Source »

...yard pass to Tommy Winn moving Harvard into B.U. territory for the first of many times. Halfback Bob Kinchen (84 yards in five carries on the day) romped for 12, Winn zipped 29 yards with an option pitch, and Kubacki took it the final six yards on a sweep right...

Author: By Tom Aronson, | Title: Harvard Unleashes Kubacki on Terriers, 37-14 | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

...white-walled old quarter of the capital, Tibetans still rise at dawn to sweep and water the dirt streets, harnessing donkeys while children troop to Chinese-run schools. Old ladies stick out their tongues at foreigners in the traditional greeting of respect. Elsewhere, the new China is being built. Traditional Tibet has become a dying wonder of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIBET: Journey to the Lost Horizon | 10/4/1976 | See Source »

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