Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lights are dim, as I sweep up a pile of beer cans, broken exacto knives, empty coffee cups and cigarette butts. I am the janitor for What Is To Be Done? and the editors left me here to write this week's notes. It is up to me to inform you that this will be the last magazine until September, as my generous employers are going on their well deserved summer vacations. Jenn Mnookin will be summering in Paris, eating "Croissan'wiches" in French Burger Kings. Maia Harris will travel to exotic California to help the impoverished...
...Harvard "B"-side made it a sweep, winning the "B"-side tournament for the second consecutive year, defeating B.C., 14-12, in the final...
...weeks later Greene and his staff made a surprise sweep of the corridors, rounding up 400 students who were loitering after classes had begun. All of them were suspended and sent home with letters requesting that their parents meet with Greene before the students could be allowed to return. In his first semester, Greene handed out 2,000 suspensions and ordered 100 transfers. Students got the message. By the end of Greene's first year, classroom attendance had risen from 56% to 85%. With a measure of order and calm restored, Greene went to work on academics...
...stand on the levee near Jackson Square in the French Quarter, you can see the Mississippi flowing by at about seven feet above street level. It's a big, brown, mean-looking river, just waiting for the next hurricane to sweep away all the pretty, shabby stucco buildings with their fancy wrought iron balconies. Local people know this, just as they know that the city is sinking under their feet and that there aren't many jobs around now that all the oil and chemical companies are going under. But they don't seem to care much. They keep sinking...
...Sweep...