Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...room hitting a ball off a wall." Actually, seven-man teams rampage up and down an indoor court larger than a basketball floor mistreating a leather ball about the size of a cantaloupe. Having seen it now, Megonigal and Ueberroth are both convinced that team handball is going to sweep the country next summer...
...Saturday proved to be a clean sweep for the Crimson, which won all 14 of its matches. And on Sunday, Elizabeth Evans took a key singles match from Princeton's Joy Cummings, 7-6, 6-3. In the B flight singles, Harvard players won both semifinals. Robin Boss and Kathy Vigna didn't bother to play the final...
...their part, the Soviets at one point assembled a dozen fishing and naval auxiliary vessels and apparently tried a concerted sweep of the ocean floor in the search area, using some kind of trawling gear. They were not observed to bring up anything. Nonetheless, the Soviets told Japan that they had "documents and articles" from Flight 007 that they will turn over to the Japanese this week...
...Different Kind of Sweep...
...sweep of terror, China under the Cultural Revolution was the equivalent of Nazi Germany. Thugs, Red Guard bands and idealists fought in the cities, all rivaling one another to show loyalty to Mao Thought. Stories from the interior convey the sweep of the violence. In Chengdu, capital of Sichuan, the handsome old government palace was blown to bits by Red Guards; in its place they erected a new hall filled only with portraits of Mao. In Chongqing, workers fought each other with machine guns, artillery, armored cars and tanks. In Harbin, the factions used air planes to bomb each other...