Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson cagers put together their second consecutive winning performance last night as they rolled past Boston University, 86-70, to complete a triumphant sweep of the Beanpot Tournament...
...anti-ballistic missile defenses. Lasers could be used to sweep the skies and detect incoming missiles, and may some day be powerful enough to destroy enemy missiles in space. The day may not be too far off when lasers can blind an enemy's early warning system and leave him vulnerable to missile attack. Strong and still unexplained infra-red light detected by U.S. early warning satellites over Russia recently heightened speculation that the Soviets may be experimenting with such devices. U.S. scientists are believed to be working on a similar system...
Will is frank about the reasons for his general pessimism: "We've only had liberal, bourgeois civilization for about 200 years. That's not very long--it's a mere blink. No reason it will last forever. If you look at the depressing sweep of human history, I see no reason to believe that free societies, which took so long to come around and are so rare today--and indeed, are fewer today than they were ten years ago--I see no reason to believe that they're the wave of the future. They're certainly not the wave...
Penny Whirligig. Dravot and Carnehan succeed beyond their wildest dreams, and then fall farther than their worst fears. They sweep into the country with a shipment of rifles, organize the natives into armies and take over as rulers. Danny is taken for a god and made king. The .wealth of the entire country is at hand and ready for plunder. Danny, however, decides to live the dream, take a wife and settle into monarchy. Before Peachy starts back across the mountain with half the national treasury, Danny asks him to stay for the wedding. At the ceremony, Danny...
...Bruins tried to quell the blazing Crimson attack in the running events, but Harvard's trackmen held their own. Despite a Brown sweep in the mile run and 1-2 Bruin finishes in the 40-yd. dash and the two-mile, Harvard managed to out-score Brown 34-30 in the eight running events...