Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today's match became especially crucial for the Crimson after Boston College upset the varsity's closest N.C.A.A. competitor, Clarkson, 3 to 2, at Potsdam, N.Y., yesterday. A sweep of the Crimson's remaining seven games may well assure the sextet of a chance at the national title...
Hutchinson came back in the 440 with teammate Andy Schennheiter to sweep the event in 4:45.9. This was the only race in which the varsity did not take at least a second...
When the bombs begin popping, Graves promised. AEC representatives will be in radio contact with the Nevada test site and will tell the public when each bomb is scheduled. If a harmless sound wave hits the region, Graves hopes that panic will not sweep the gulches again...
Even if the sextet could sweep its final nine games, including six in the League, this could mean nothing towards an invitation to the national tourney. The team's schedule this year has included only two of the main contenders for Eastern honors, while its leading competitors, Clarkson and St. Lawrence, have been battled all season with top-ranked sixes...
White Winter. Ten months of the year Vorkuta is blanketed by snow. El Campesino, the peasant general who fought for the Republicans in the Spanish civil war (one of the few people ever to have escaped from a Soviet prison camp), has described the storms which sweep over the Vorkuta during the winter: "The watch dogs of our guards sensed the approach of a snowstorm before we did; they began to howl and whine, and this would be the signal to start cutting holes into the frozen ground where there was no other shelter. One day a shift...