Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's ice hockey team defeated Cornell, 4-0, Saturday, and topped RIT, 3-2, the following day to record a difficult road sweep...
Several times during Harvard's dramatic sweep of Penn and Princeton, Roby pranced up and down the court, exhorting the large Briggs Athletic Center crowds to stand and cheer for his cagers. The partisan fans responded to Roby's arm waves, and--perhaps, not coincidentally--the Crimson players did too with a pair of upsets...
Those title embers had been fanned by the Crimson's first-ever road sweep of the mighty duo earlier in the year...
There is, nonetheless, a strange suddenness to our times. Days, months sweep by without a ripple, and then from nowhere the news leaps out and grabs one by the collar. (What is news? Do you people know nothing?) This year alone, a widowed housewife deposed a foxy tyrant, a stockholder took hold of a giant entertainment company, a space vehicle that was supposed to fly crashed to earth, a peace meeting between the world's two leaders that was supposed to fly crashed to earth, a disease took on the look of a plague, a nuclear power plant exploded...
...destroying UMD's Bulldogs, 4-1 and 4-2, last weekend, this team became only the third in Harvard history to sweep a series from a Midwestern team on the road...