Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the 200-yd. butterfly, with seven of the 13 races swum, the Explorers managed to take a one-point lead, 31-30. But consecutive Harvard victories--highlighted by a one-two-three sweep in the 200 backstroke--wrapped up the meet just before the final event...
...cagers had entered the contest at 6-2 in the Ivies and had achieved their first-ever weekend road sweep of Penn and Princeton earlier in the season. A second win over the 6-1 Quakers would have put the Crimson in the driver's seat the rest...
After opening its Ivy campaign with a weekend sweep of Penn and Princeton at Briggs Athletic Center, the Crimson has struggled to six losses in its last seven league outings, dropping the squad into a sixth-place tie in the standings...
...renovation has eliminated the dead spots and the echo, although the subway trains still announce their passage. The removal of the drapery has revealed the full sweep of the proscenium arch, giving the hall a more vivid visual configuration, but it also reinforces psychologically the impression of acoustical brilliance. Although the cramped old lobby has been transformed into a gracious entrance flanked by twin grand staircases, entering and leaving the hall is more than ever a contact sport...
...good story bears retelling, and the one about the family Kennedy is among the best. It has the elements and sweep of 19th century literature: great expectations, war and peace and, in recent years, the whiff of a cherry orchard. In their 1984 book The Kennedys, Peter Collier and David Horowitz describe a Thanksgiving at Hyannis that had taken place two years before. After dinner, Rose, then 93, gathered her strength to address the remnants of her tribe. "I want you all to remember," said the frail matriarch, "that you are not just Kennedys, you are Fitzgeralds...