Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...later in the day won the 800 meters in 1:54.04, bagged second at 3:53.07, while freshman Eric Schuler, on Tiger Dan Challener's tail for much of the race, pulled by him in the last yards to take third at 3:54.38 to complete the Crimson sweep...
...tomorrow's race will also put Heiden well on his way to an unprecedented five-event sweep in the men's speed skating...
...Eric Heiden, 21, starts his campaign to become the first man to win all five speed-skating gold medals as he competes in the 500-meter sprint. In the women's 500, Eric's sister Beth, 19, leads an American bid to sweep all three medals. In the pairs' figure skating, America's Tai Babilonia, 19, and Randy Gardner, 20, open their duel with the Soviets' husband-and-wife team of Irina Rodnina, 30, and Alexander Zaitsev, 27, in the "short program," which lasts two minutes or less and involves set routines. The most unforgiving...
...Verdin's 1:57.2 led a Crimson sweep of the 200-yd. butterfly and set yet another meet record in the process. Breaststroke ace David Lundberg lapped the Crimson's ten-event win streak with a record-breaking 58.9 in the 100-yd. breaststroke...
...tensions that have made political violence a way of life with an average of eight to ten killings a day. Mindful of the military's recent warning that it would move in unless terrorism is controlled, police last week arrested 98 suspect leftists in a four-province sweep. To little avail: in Istanbul, a leftist group set fire to eight banks...