Word: sweep
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...Southern state does not make a sweep. Even if Wallace does well in Massachusetts, he faces tough battles with Carter in the South Carolina caucus on Feb. 28, the Florida primary on March 9 and the North Carolina primary on March 23. Wallace is not overly confident of whipping Carter, but he denies that a loss would put him out of the race. His strategy is to accumulate delegates until he reaches the convention with a sizable bloc. Besides, he told TIME: "I'll stay in because as long as I'm in, I keep 'em honest...
Since 1952, the first year that all three alpine events were held, only two skiers, Austria's Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy of France, have been good enough to manage a complete sweep. Innsbruck will probably not turn up such a man or woman. Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark could win two medals. The son of a farmer, Stenmark, 19, finished first or second in eleven of 15 slalom events last season and is leading the combined standings for this year's World Cup. He has the nerves that are as necessary as goggles to this competition...
Cross-country skiing is no longer the exclusive province of its Nordic creators. Soviet and East German skiers are as adept as their Scandinavian counterparts in the double-pole technique, and equally sturdy. In fact, Zinaida Amosova, Galina Kulakova and Raisa Smetanina could effect a Soviet sweep of women's races. Sweden's Thomas Magnuson, a former lumberjack known as "The Slugger," Finnish Sports Instructor Juha Mieto and Norway's Oddvar Braa should win medals, but East Germany's Gerhard Grimmer is technically as skilled. Glim mer's teammate, Ulrich Wehling, skis and jumps consistently...
Sprinter Todd Hooks and leaper Mel Embree paced the thinclads to victory with two wins each, but it took a clutch Crimson victory in the mile relay and a high jump sweep to ensure the meet's outcome in the closing moments...
...Embree (6 ft. 10 in.), John Mc-Cullock (6 ft. 7 in.) and Dan Sullivan (6 ft. 6 in.) leaped to a sweep in that event, the pendulum and the meet swung toward the side of the Crimson...