Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...opportunistic Mather team recovered two fumbles, line-backer Eric Turner intercepted two passes and Joel Arnason a third in a decisive victory over a Quincy team which never put together a scoring threat. Mather scored on the first play after a Quincy fumble on a 22-yard sweep around right end, gaining a one-touchdown lead it held through the first half...
...absolute, and even his immense erudition too vulnerable...for his most ambitious work to prevail among contemporary generations." But some of those contemporaries were more generous. Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison said that "he was one of the few people who dared to write on the broad sweep of history." Daniel Boorstin, recently confirmed as the new Librarian of Congress, commented that "few historians have spent themselves so unstintingly or so effectively in the effort to transcend the provincialism of their time and place." Toynbee felt that there was a kind of intellectual provincialism, too, in what he called...
...This is earth-feeling music," says Bob Marley, another Jamaican reggae star. In the sweep of the packed Orpheum, back across the misted edges of this vague, bent-spaced box of face-lost, swaying people, this power was realized, this music embraced...
...same time, insofar as we can, it is necessary for the Western democracies to recapture the sense that they can control their own destiny-that they are not subject to blind economic forces that sweep across, that produce unemployment, that produce inflation. This is the reasoning behind the planned summit meeting in November...
...eight players, including Shortstop Risberg and Outfielder Joe ("Say it ain't so, Joe") Jackson, of conspiracy charges, but Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis suspended them from the game for life. Risberg retired to his Minnesota dairy farm to brood. Six years later, he decided to try to sweep the slate clean with a declaration that he and other White Sox players had paid Ty Cobb's Detroit Tigers to "slough off a Labor Day series that allowed Chicago to clinch the 1917 American League pennant...