Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...size, there was evidence that party officials were seeking to keep the struggle under control, lest it lead to the kind of chaos that swept China during the Cultural Revolution. There have not yet been any posters with incendiary slogans-such as ROOT OUT THE POISONOUS WEEDS and SWEEP AWAY MONSTERS AND DEMONS-aimed directly at the cadre of pragmatic bureaucrats who were restored to high office by Chou...
Well, it looks like the Harvard basketball team has finally found itself. With a sweep of Cornell and Columbia at the IAB last weekend, the cagers not only equal ed their longest winning streak of the season, but they also upped their record to a 8-15 (not bad, huh), a mark which includes a glittering 3-8 showing in the powerhouse Ivy League, and moved an entire half game ahead of Yale and into seventh place in the Ivy standings...
Tepe continued his winning ways into the second round and picked up some help along the way when John Chipman successfully crossed swords with his opponent. Bennett won again and Vastola regained his form, but Yale's Stanley Ng, enroute to a three bout sweep, outdueled Major to get the Elis back on track...
...while Peter dropped his match, it wasn't a total loss for the Havens family. John, at number two, had the easiest afternoon of anyone, allowing just 21 points in a three-game sweep, and when Ehrlich then took a four-game struggle (the only Crimson win which required more than the minimum three games) to increase Harvard's lead to 4-2, it was time for Blake to "baretta" the Crimson position...
...from the seam with pickaxes; they work continuous mining machines that cost $200,000 apiece and look like a cross between a chain saw and a lobster. The machines nose up to the coal vein and rip out ten tons of coal a minute; then their clawlike arms sweep the coal onto conveyor belts. The most efficient underground mines have "longwall" machines that continuously shear the coal vein, much as a delicatessen slicer cuts salami...