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Word: sweepingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard again allowed itself to fall behind early, but a key mental mistake by the Crimson down the stretch assured the weekend sweep...

Author: By Joseph Kaufmanns, | Title: New Yorkers Vandalize Men Hoopsters | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

...doesn't matter that fourth-ranked B.C. and second-ranked Harvard were in the Beanpot. A pair of unranked squads will be taking center stage Monday, after the Eagles and Crimson sweep out the theater...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Disconsolate Over Consolation Game | 2/4/1987 | See Source »

...just Hollywood) refused to see that Viet Nam was different. All the old givens -- beau geste, military master plans, unswerving belief in the officer class -- were fatally irrelevant to a guerrilla war. Forget the World War II narrative line of tanks and tactics, which moved with the ponderous sweep of a Golden Age Hollywood plot. Viet Nam, set in jungles without beginning or end, was a flash of episodic, aleatory explosions; it was modernism brought to war. And a new kind of war demanded a new look at the war-movie genre. Platoon fills the bill. It is a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Platoon: Viet Nam, the way it really was, on film | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...sweep was very important because it's tough to keep up conditioning with the Christmas break," said Sasner, a junior...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icewomen Sweep | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

...With victories over Penn Friday night (93-91) and Princeton Saturday (78-54), Harvard engineered its third-ever home sweep of Penn and Princeton and its first since the 1956-'57 season. The other two back-to-backers came...

Author: By Jonathan Putnam, | Title: The Ancient Eight's Newest Stars | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

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