Word: sweepers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Larson was Harvard's sweeper, leading an exceptional defense that kept the pressure off Whitley, and contributing to the offense with four goals and three assists...
...beat UMass once and we can do it again," Crimson sweeper Inga Larson said. "When our team really clicks on the game I don't think there's anyone who can beat...
...result, the Crimson backs felt free to overlap into offensive roles and take shots, and sweeper Miles Welch, the last line of defense before Ginsburg, who was as lonely as a Maytag repairman most of the afternoon, played most of the second half almost on the midfield line...
Union officials concede privately that they expect a tough ratification fight. Many senior union members, who are relatively safe from layoffs, are likely to vote against the agreement because it did not get them fatter paychecks. Warned David Lankford, 37, a sweeper with 18 years seniority at the Clark Avenue Cadillac plant: "I want a raise. I'd vote down anything less than getting back our 3% a year." Rallying under the slogan "restore and more in '84," workers like Lankford have maintained that the union should not only recoup concessions made in its 1982 contract with...
...reflexive viciousness of the drug trade came into stark relief last month with the case of Nathaniel Sweeper, a suspected drug-gang enforcer who was accused of shooting another man to death on a Harlem street corner. The chief witness against Sweeper was a drug addict named Bobby Edmonds. Police and prosecutors succeeded in keeping his identity secret until the trial began. At that point, the judge disclosed Edmonds' name and address to the defense. Within seven hours Edmonds was found dead, with two bullets in the back of his head...