Word: sweeping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Once upon a time we couldn't clean our streets," explains Vellucci. "In the wintertime we couldn't plough them, and in the summer-time, during the good weather, we couldn't sweep them. And the reason is that a lot of the students would leave their automobiles parked and then go home, like, to New York and California, on furlough...
...baseball squad claims the EIBL title with a sweep of Princeton, earning a berth in the NCAA regional tourney...
...first act of China's great political drama of 1989 was played out with the panoply and sweep of a revolutionary grand opera. While much of the world watched, for a time, via satellite TV transmission, hundreds of thousands of students and sympathizers filled Beijing's Tiananmen Square, demanding greater democratization and an end to nepotism and corruption. On Saturday, May 20, with the government and the Chinese capital paralyzed, the curtain rang down ominously on Act I: Premier Li Peng, a principal target of the demonstrators' wrath, and President Yang Shangkun imposed martial law; troops from the People...
Several of their objectives are clear. One is a clean sweep of China's rampant corruption. The demand seems straightforward enough, but implied in it is an attack on what the protesters see as the abuse of power by top party officials. Virtually all of them have been accused of nepotism. Li Peng is viewed as a beneficiary of nepotism since he was an orphan raised by Zhou Enlai...
...Cornell baseball field in Ithaca, N.Y., the Harvard baseball team bounced out of the EIBL cellar with a sweep over the Big Red. The next day, the Crimson swept the Tigers in Princeton. Harvard had turned its mediocre season around...