Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read in your letters column [March 28] Senator Barry Goldwater's denunciation of Franklin Spinney's presentation on runaway defense costs as "talking about history, not about our current situation." Goldwater is in a position to analyze Spinney's charges objectively. Unfortunately, he has chosen to sweep them under the rug instead. John D. Rozendaal Houston...
...which appeared almost certain to sweep many of the top prizes just a few months ago, managed, by contrast, to crawl away with only four minor trophies. Gandhi took most of the awards E. T. was expected to get, including Best Director (Richard Attenborough), Best Original Screenplay (John Briley), Best Cinematography (Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor) and Best Film Editing (John Bloom). All in all, the 3-hr. 5-min. epic won eight prizes, more than any other film since Cabaret, which snatched eight...
...Harvard baseball team's sweep of Penn Saturday at Soldiers Field must have been a gift from Coach Alex Nahigian's fairy godmother...
Each year, when monsoon rains sweep in from the Indian Ocean, three separate guerrilla armies emerge from their sanctuaries to challenge the 180,000 Vietnamese troops who have been occupying Kampuchea since 1979. And each year, when the parched rice paddies sprout nothing but stubble, the Vietnamese seek revenge, rolling out their tanks in an effort to eliminate the 45,000 armed "nationalists" opposed to the Vietnamese-backed government of President Heng Samrin. But this year the Vietnamese have instigated something more than the usual rite of spring. In their most deadly and deliberate offensive yet, they have been training...
...Dartmouth's last two singles players ruined the Crimson's bid to sweep the meeting, taking the next two contests in three sets. Sophomore Deanne Loonin battled back from a 6-4 first-set loss to win the second stanza, 6-4, before dropping the last set, 6-2. And sophomore Captain Deborah Kaufman lost a 6-4, 6-7, 7-6 squeaker...