Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since my birthday's not too far away, I'd like to blow out all the candles and wish that someone would knock off the Orioles this year--California or maybe the Brobdingnagian Pittsburgh Pirates--with about 16 homeruns in a four-game sweep. The Orioles are the most boring team in baseball, a gaggle of colorless Holy Rollers. Around the league they tell this story about how Tippy Martinez, Baltimore's top bullpen twirler, invited Earl Weaver to a 7:30 a.m. Sunday prayer breakfast...
...Chrysler continued to proclaim in press conferences and full-page newspaper ads the disaster that would sweep the nation and the auto industry if the U.S.'s tenth largest industrial corporation went bankrupt, the consequences of a Chrysler failure came under closer scrutiny. Some 200,000 U.S. firms declare bankruptcy annually, and the right to fail is as much a part of the capitalist system as the right to succeed. Bankruptcy is the free system's harsh but necessary means of purging companies that, through bad luck or bad management, fail to win enough customers in the marketplace...
...sweep of construction inconveniences more people than only those who work in the Square...
...junior varsity completed the Harvard sweep, defeating two opponents on Saturday. Led by three freshman Eric Schuler, Scott Lindquist and Andy Regan, who finished in a dead heat for first place, the Crimson trounced Northeastern, 18-37, and Naval Academy Prep...
...Patriotic Front leaders may also have little to gain from participation in election. If the Front agreed to a ceasefire, it would throw away its strongest card. President Julius Nyere of Tanzania reportedly believes that Nkomo and Mugabe would sweep free elections in an independent Zimbabwe; other observers are not so sure. It is possible that the long-standing military and political rivalry between ZAPU and ZANU, the two wings of the Front, might create confusion if Nkomo and Mugabe were to run together. Tribal rivalries would also play a role, since Nkomo is a Karanga and Mugabe a Zezeru...