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Word: sweepingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outpointed the other 12 squads to capture the three-weapon team title. Columbia's swordsmen dominated the round-robin individual tournaments with a sweep of firsts in the foil, epee, and sabre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Duelers Take Last Place | 3/19/1968 | See Source »

...Though the Air Force is pleased with its version of the sweep-wing fighter-bomber, the Navy still considers too heavy for aircraft carriers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Clifford Takes Over | 3/8/1968 | See Source »

TAKE the MTA one stop past Park to Washington Station. Let the fat ladies with shopping bags sweep you up the rickety wooden escalator. Turn left at the tattered John Havlicek for hairspray, climb up past tattered John hawking Record Americans, and you will find yourself on Washington Street--address of Boston's best skin flick parlors...

Author: By James R. Beniger, | Title: Hetero, Homo, Sado and Pseudo: Skin Flicks Offer All Perversions | 2/29/1968 | See Source »

Anil Nayar led the onslaught by downing his rival 17-14, 15-8, 11-15, and 15-11. Sophomore Larry Terrell, Jose Gonzalez, and captain Rick Sterne polished off their opponents to complete another "fantastic four" sweep...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Racquetmen Grab Ivy Title Again; Swordsmen Lose to Cornell, 15-12 | 2/26/1968 | See Source »

Halfway through the meet the score stood at 32-29 for Harvard. But the Tigers swept the 200-yard butterfly to gain the lead for the first time in the afternoon. Harvard's Bragg and Adams responded by sweeping the 100-yard freestyle. The seesaw continued to swing as Princeton won the 200-yard backstroke to tie the meet; Harvard stormed back with a Shrout-led sweep of the 500-yard freestyle. Then Princeton edged out Harvard's Carl Cummins in the 200-yard breaststroke, postponing the decision to the final event, the 400-yard free relay...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Tigers Nip Tankers, 58-55 | 2/19/1968 | See Source »

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