Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson travel to New Haven to face the Elis on Saturday, hoping to repeat their 7-0 sweep 10 days ago in the Howe Cup. Yale finished fourth in that tournament...
After disappointing losses to Cornell, Brown and Yale, the highly acclaimed Crimson cagers needed a sweep against the powers from the South to build momentum before a torturous five-game road trip, which will include stops in the unfriendly homes of the Tigers and Quakers...
...currently one of the most violent lands in the world. An estimated 20,000 Salvadorans have been killed in the past two years alone. As many as 1,000 are murdered or disappear each month. Last week, for example, at least 19 people were killed during an antiguerrilla sweep by the Salvadoran army through a poor suburb of the nation's capital, San Salvador. According to the army, the victims were subversives who put up an armed resistance to the raid. But most independent observers agree that the victims were unarmed residents who were taken from their homes...
Playing on TV in their home arena ought to give the cagers an extra charge against the formidable Tigers, which they could certainly use. After two consecutive league losses, Harvard (2-3) will have to sweep its weekend series to stay in the Ivy race...
...Ward 6 caucus--only one sported a Tom O'Neill's button. The Dukakis slate prevailed with near unanimity, O'Neill's men insist they never expected to carry that "liberal activist" section of Tommy's hometown. But it's harder for them to explain why he couldn't sweep eastern and northern Cambridge, or why his supporters joined with King forces in his very own ward 10 "neighborhood slate"--a strategy some coordinators had said they would use only if it looked like Dukakis could win. More telling than the aggregate results are the regional figures, they show...