Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Carrying a 2-0 lead into the final three matches, the top of the Harvard lineup continued the sweep. Dowling came away with a convincing 3-0 victory at number three, while top seeded. Dinncen defeated Mexico's Isaac Kirel...
...Engineers would have to sweep tier five remaining regular season league games, and would have to win four ECAC playoff games to tie the league's consecutive victory streak set by the 1969-70 Cornell team that went...
...publicized in advance does not make them any less bold an attempt to carry out Reagan's philosophical objective of reducing the role of the Federal Government in American life. In part, the howl probably has been delayed rather than suppressed. Democrats, cowed by Reagan's 49-state electoral sweep, are lying low, many in the hope that Reagan's budget will self-destruct in a quarrel over military spending. Their strategy for the moment is to let Dole and his Republican Senate colleagues take the lead in trying to negotiate a compromise with the White House that would then...
Even if one accept the contention that androgyny is about to sweep through the heart of Middle America, the timing of all this interest in androgyny betrays Engel's masculine frame of reference. Since the Dior look of the 1940's, women's clothing has become increasingly masculinized. Designers have gradually eschewed the classic Marilyn Monroe shape. Sometimes in the name of making a woman less of a sex object, but the alternative clothes and silhouettes have almost always been masculine. Broad shouldered jackets, business suits, ties, women's briefs; all were taken from the classical men's look...
...freedom. Scoffed Koch: "Does this make any sense? Do people have a right to simply go out, if they are not in full possession of their faculties, and kill themselves?" In fact, few of the homeless chose to be out in the cold. On the first night of the sweep, the police picked up only 14 street people, two of whom went against their will. One, a woman of 66, protested that she was "waiting for a ship to take me back to Panama." The other said simply, "I'm an alcoholic, and this is my life...