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Word: sweep (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the batwomen went to Providence with a 9-4 record, including a record-setting seven-game winning streak earlier in the season and a double-header sweep over Dartmouth--their only Ivy competition before the tourney--they couldn't get going early on, losing a close contest to hosts Brown, 3-1, in action Friday...

Author: By Kevin Carter, | Title: Batwomen Take Fifth in Ivies | 4/30/1984 | See Source »

...Crimson spoke with Koch during his recent visit to Harvard, when the mayor addressed the Institute of Politics forum, led by former Deputy Mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr.'s study group, and made an imprompu sweep through Square book stores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How You Spell E-d K-O-C-h | 4/25/1984 | See Source »

...mining and by subsequent revelations that the American CIA had directed and supervised it from a mother ship off Nicaragua's Pacific coast is on another order of magnitude altogether. A troublesome rift has opened in the nation's alliances, symbolized by a French offer to help sweep the mines from Nicaraguan waters. The U.S. has been put on the defensive in world forums, first casting a veto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosion over Nicaragua | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

...allies began registering deep disapproval. In a supposedly confidential letter to some Latin American countries that promptly leaked in Colombia, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson offered, "in cooperation with one or more European countries," to help sweep the mines from Nicaraguan ports. It was a clumsy play intended to prod Washington into adopting a less bellicose policy in Central America. No European country expressed interest in his proposal. But the concern the letter indicated was real. Said Cheysson last week: "If one accepts it [mining] in one part of the world, there is no reason not to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Explosion over Nicaragua | 4/23/1984 | See Source »

Harvard now stands at 10-3 overall 2-2 in the Eastern Intercollegiate Baseball League Columbia is 18-10, 6-4 in the league. The Crimson needs a sweep today at Penn to keep pace with the league leaders...

Author: By Mike Knobler, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Batmen, Columbia Split Doubleheader; Lions Overcome Six-Run Harvard Lead | 4/21/1984 | See Source »

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