Word: sweep
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a tough weekend coming up," Snowden said. "Columbia is playing good basketball. It's a weekend we'd really like to sweep...
...what exactly does Clinton favor? Does he really want to sweep up the purse snatchers and coat thieves? No one knows for sure. A few hours before last Tuesday's speech, Vice President Gore said, "We'll let Congress decide." Minutes later, presidential counselor David Gergen admitted, "We don't even know what the different congressional ideas call for." The day after Clinton's address, White House press secretary Dee Dee Meyers echoed Gore and Gergen; she didn't know what was on the table, only that the White House wasn't going to get involved. "Actually," insists Reed, disagreeing...
Leading the charge in the battle for more fun at Harvard has been Women Appealing for Change. If nothing else, these final club boycotters have succeeded in bringing to the fore an issue which Harvard administrators are always trying to sweep under the rug. But WAC's position has never been an extreme one. By and large these women are not concerned with violence, chauvinism and elitism (issues, alas, which will continue to be underemphasized this year). Indeed, these are the same women that have gladly patronized the clubs in the past. Their main interest is access, access...
...victory got a couple of monkeys off the Crimson's back. The season sweep of Dartmouth was the first one for Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan, and it also ended the Crimson's seven-game losing skid...
...front of the church. Approximately 50 Secret Service agents, most wearing the infamous standard-issue trenchcoats and all with earpieces in place, stepped out and proceeded to the rear of the church. They were professionals--stoic and unflinching in the below-zero-wind-chill air. The agents conducted a "sweep" of the church and stationed agents inside...