Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only Cathy Flick, of Boston College, who finished third, broke Harvard's sweep of the top six places. As Hunt said after the race, "We not only won it, we killed...
...checkered odyssey. But how does one dream in a technocratic age? How do a people regain the faith that caused small peasant societies to build cathedrals with spires reaching toward the heavens, edifices that it would take centuries to complete, enshrining in stone a testimonial to the perseverance and sweep of their aspirations...
Fang Yi and his colleagues have set difficult goals for a country that still relies heavily on human sweat. In the cities, women sweep the streets with brooms they make out of straw. In the countryside, road crews work with pick and shovel; when steamrollers are available, they are usually fuming, coal-burning monsters. Despite the vaunted Chinese emphasis on the dignity of the masses, produce is still conveyed by pedal-powered carts carrying burdens several times heavier than their human engines...
Monday, 8 a.m. Back on the road to Santasoucci's. As always rumors abound; police, some say, may sweep through the camp. Or maybe...
...Pirates won their first National League pennant since 1971 with a resounding 7-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh yesterday. The win gave them a three-game sweep over the Reds in the best of five Championship Series...