Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last name is Stump and in this year's Vermont-Harvard series, he has scored the two goals that have silenced the Crimson and have given the Catamounts its first sweep ever over Harvard...
...Albert Gore: Mystery. Gore has put very little time into either Iowa or New Hampshire and is banking on an amazing Super Tuesday sweep. No president since 1952 has won election without taking New Hampshire first, so how or why Gore plans to do the impossible remains to be seen. He will have a few more problems, namely his excessive ambition and the growing bickering between his and Rep. Gephardt's campaigns. But he certainly cannot be discounted. The Tennessee senator is one of the Democratic Party's rising stars and a likely vice presidential candidate...
...swimmers placed first in every event until the 500-yd, freestyle. when the Crimson began to enter races under exhibition status in order to keep the score respectable. Even so, nine of 13 races went Harvard's way in a meet which began with a 1-2-3 Crimson sweep in the 400 medley relay...
...Calgary the combined and the super-G have been added for the first time to the downhill, slalom and GS. Will Zurbriggen sweep five golds? No. That is so much more unlikely than when Killy, in '68, or Toni Sailer, in '56, swept all three events that it does not bear talking about. Tomba, a big, laughing fellow whose name is a drumbeat as his countrymen cheer him on, should take the slalom...
...book of almost unbounded scope, Kennedy follows the sweep of diplomatic-military history from the dynastic struggles of 16th century Europe to the superpower competition of today. Kennedy's tale of the rise and fall of Great Powers is an uncontroversial one which relies heavily on other historians' interpretations. But Kennedy has created a broad synthetical framework to establish the "dynamic of change" involving military strength and economic capacity in world politics. While this link has been written on extensively by numerous scholars, The Rise and Fall is already an influential new book simply because it forcefully documents the importance...