Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard was on its way to a clean sweep of the "Lost Weekend" over Princeton and Penn, but the Crimson dropped its shooting touch when it picked up the brooms...
...Crimson won the meet by throughly dominating the breaststroke and backstroke events. Anne Koerckel led a sweep of the 200-yd. breaststroke with a time of 2:27.50, and Mia Costello and Stephanie Wriede took second and third, respectively. In the 100-yd. breaststroke, Costello (1:08.00) beat out Koerckel (1:08.70) in a one-two Harvard finish...
...cast of characters, Henry Kissinger, John Mitchell and the rest. The nation soon would be off on a different road, or so one imagined. It would be another four years before the U.S. withdrew from Viet Nam, and another seven years before the North Vietnamese armies would sweep south and accomplish the result that American power had sought so long to prevent. During 1968, another 16,000 Americans died in the war. By the time the polished black granite of the Viet Nam Memorial was installed in Washington in 1982 -- an act of national reconciliation that took years -- more than...
...measure's supporters, who have so far received generous contributions from the city real estate industry, may bring out a strong anti-rent control vote that could sweep in a fifth Independent. But on the other hand, the threat to rent control may bring out more votes from those who benefit from the system...
Harvard's weekend sweep of Clarkson and top-ranked St. Lawrence should provide a lot of copy for Murphy's planned feature on the Harvard icemen. But Murphy was more impressed by the scene on the Crimson bus en route to Canton...