Word: sweep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hosting Princeton (19-3, 9-0 Ivy) tonight and Penn (9-12, 5-4) tomorrow, the third-place men's basketball team (14-8, 7-3) hopes to apply the same strong defensive effort it showed in a sweep of Cornell and Columbia last weekend. However, consecutive losses to Penn and Princeton preceded the sweep...
...Violence against women does take place on this campus and this isn't something that we can ignore or sweep under the rug," said Lamelle D. Rawlins '99, president of the Under-graduate Council...
...Crimson cagers can pull off a sweep, they won't feel a thing...
...they are affixed to the Western Wall. Two Websites are devoted to Cao Daiism, the tiny Vietnamese sect that worships French novelist Victor Hugo as a saint, and a handful probe the mysteries of Jainism, an Indian religion in which (as one learns on the Net) the truly faithful sweep the ground with a small broom to avoid accidentally stepping on insects or other hapless creatures. Even the famously technophobic Amish are represented online by a Website run by Ohio State University. It offers, among other things, a guide for installing a rear warning light on a horse-drawn carriage...
...million to 20 million daily viewers. Now The Deep End of the Ocean has become entrenched at the top of the New York Times fiction best-seller list, ahead of works by Sue Grafton, Danielle Steel, Mary Higgins Clark, Scott Turow and Stephen King. As she watched her novel sweep past such household names, Mitchard says, "I felt I was having an out-of-body experience...