Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson netmen were hard pressed to outperform the Princeton squad, although they gave the heavily favored Tigers a scare. Harvard dropped four of the six singles matches, but then came back to threaten the Tigers with a possible doubles sweep, as the three Crimson doubles pairs each won the first set of their contests...
...Folsom, 65, to win the Democratic nomination for an unprecedented third four-year term. The paralysis that has confined Wallace to a wheelchair since the attempt on his life two years ago was apparently no political handicap: he got more than 65% of the vote, the biggest sweep in an Alabama primary since 1920. He carried 66 of the state's 67 counties and received surprisingly strong support from blacks, whom he seriously courted for the first time in his political career. He is still coy about his plans for 1976, but it is clear that Wallace intends once...
PHILADELPHIA--Crimson Pride. The ability to win the big game. That's how Harvard coach Loyal Park summed up yesterday's crucial twinbill sweep, 2-1, 7-5, of Penn here yesterday...
...Princeton match should be the best of the season. The Tigers, who face Dartmouth today, currently stand 11-0 overall and 7-0 in the EITA league. They have won 21 consecutive dual meets, including victories over North Carolina, Penn, Columbia and Penn State, and a weekend sweep would give them sole possession of the Ivy and EITA crowns...
There was no peace waiting for him in Sierra Leone. Stevens saw his return as a political threat--the people might sweep this old but not aging hero, who had negotiated Sierra Leone's independence, back into office. He declared a state of emergency, and, in October, 1970, ordered his former friend's arrest...