Word: sweepers
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Corporate diversity programs have nothing on the U.S. national soccer team that takes the field this week in the World Cup finals, La Coupe du Monde, being held in France. There are blacks, whites and Hispanics. One striker is South African, and the sweeper is from Germany. Better to talk to the left fullback in French; one midfielder is Dutch-born, another is from Uruguay and yet another from Yugoslavia. Throw in some California dudes, a couple of kids from Jersey, a farm-boy goaltender from Washington State and, bless us, a few sons of suburban soccer moms...
Several newcomers made important contributions, including freshman Kathryn Nagle, junior Caroline Johnston--who finished second on the team in scoring--and freshman Elizabeth Sarles, who along with co-captain Beck Stringer helped anchor a defense that had to cope with the loss of several graduates, including star sweeper Daphne Clark...
Behind the boisterous support of its homecrowd, Harvard left no doubt as to who was thebetter team. A pair of goals by Aeschliman, whobegan the season on the junior varsity squad, andspectacular defense from sophomore sweeper JessicaLarson and sophomore goalkeeper Anne Browning ledHarvard to the 2-0 win and into the second roundof the postseason tourney for the first time since1984...
Just four days earlier, all over the island, faithful citizens had scattered roasted soybeans, in the annual Setsubun ceremony, crying, "Devils go out! Happiness come in!" Now a sumo wrestler whose Japanese name is an ancient word for dawn, attended by a sword-bearer and a dew sweeper, ritually purified the ground on a chilly silver morning. In something of the same spirit, International Olympic Committee president Juan Antonio Samaranch reminded the world (not least Baghdad and Washington) that the "Olympic truce" calls for an end to formal warfare during the competition...
Then another sweeper enters from the wings, and another. Greeting each other only with nods and grunts of "Oi!", their broom-strokes begin to beat out variations on a theme, interweaving and refracting each other. As the rhythm builds, the sweepers become carried away and start to dance to the beat...