Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-game sweep gives the Crimson a 3-1 mark on the season and a shocking 2-0 record in the Ivy League. Last year, the squad won a grand total of three games, without capturing a single Ancient Eight contest...
Paradise Postponed combines some of the social sweep of Brideshead with the hugger-mugger of Rumpole, the overweight, conniving and lovable Old Bailey barrister. The novel's central mystery emerges after the death, in 1985, of Simeon Simcox, 80, Anglican rector of Rapstone Fanner, a village some two hours' driving time west of London. The clergyman's will contains a staggering surprise. He has left nothing to his wife Dorothy or his two grown sons Henry and Fred. Instead, the ardent Socialist once known as "the Red Rector of Rapstone" has bequeathed all of his shares in the family-owned...
...views of a comet's coma and nucleus, and send the images and other data back to earth.* It also served as the advance guard for four other craft -- the Soviet Vega 2, the Japanese Suisei and Sakigake, and the European Space Agency's Giotto -- that were to sweep by Halley's in the following week...
Borsato also scored two goals in Clarkson's 6-4 triumph over defending ECAC champion RPI Saturday, to help his team to a first-round playoff sweep of the Engineers...
...same as last year's uninspired debut effort, but listen closer and you'll discover several excellent sections embedded within otherwise bland material. The liveliest, most adventuresome song here is the recently released single, "All the Kings Horses." Here Tony Franklin's keyboards actually dominate the song. They sweep up and down and back, then drop to near silence, except for Rodgers' cool and restrained vocals. Similar to the opening to Van Halen's 1984, the keyboards provide a musical foil for an oscillating rhythm section...