Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's junior varsity and freshmen lightweight boats also made off with Coast Guard Academy shirts, making a clean Crimson sweep...
...attempt to rig this year's elections, the Coop management has acknowledged that it is painfully aware of the Coop Group's presence and determined to prevent a Coop Group sweep this time. The management's displeasure with the Coop Group is probably the best reason why students who have not yet turned in their ballots should vote down the line for the Coop Group...
...have gathered more than 600,000 signatures, nearly twice as many as are necessary to have the initiative placed on the November ballot. "We feel that we're on the cutting edge of a new phenomenon," says Willens. "It's going to be very hard for the opposition to sweep us into the corner as a fringe group." Indeed, early estimates are that the referendum measure could pass with 65% of the vote...
...streets and chipped cement steps in Hollister testify to the fault's ornery nature. To appreciate its sheer power, a trip to Almaden's Cienega Winery ten miles to the south is instructive. From afar, nothing seems amiss: manicured vines growing Cabernet, Pinot Noir and Chardonnay grapes sweep to the base of the Gabilan Mountains. Up close, the scene is not so idyllic: the San Andreas splits the winery building like a conveyor belt. On the North American plate, employees are playing basketball. Across the road, on the Pacific plate, there is a seminar for salesmen...
...taking sides at some point. You can't help but sympathize with the science fiction fan, Harold, who falls for Suzi Scarsdale and does all of her physics homework, only to be scorned as "too serious" and left alone with his calculator while Suzi lets some Chip or Chuck sweep her away to an evening of mystery and adventure...