Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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eight: the most common shell in intercollegiate rowing. An eight has eight sweep oarsmen...
...unprecedented upset, the Harvard men's water polo team trounced the Brown B-squad and clobbered MIT, Yale, and UMass to make a clean sweep of this weekend's New England League Tournament at Blodgett Pool...
Even with the doubles sweep, Fish was reluctant to call the tournament a success. "We were a little over-confident and our poor attitude hurt us," Fish said...
Lendl's victory combined with Hana Mandlikova's upset of Martina Navratilova on Saturday produced a Czechoslovakian sweep of the two top events. In addition Czech Helena Sukova teamed up with West Germany's Claudia Kohde-Kilsch yesterday to dethrone Navratilova and Pam Shriver as the womens' doubles champs...
...synthesized its own NPPD and began tests that by last year showed it to be a mutagen. This finding seemed academic, since Soviet use of the chemical appeared to have stopped in 1982. But last spring a routine sweep of the embassy found NPPD again. Also, some embassy employees developed skin rashes, the possible result of contact with heavier-than-usual concentrations of the chemical. Intensified searches pointed to more widespread Soviet use of NPPD, and in larger quantities than ever before. At one point, in fact, careless KGB operatives seem to have sprinkled it so heavily in the embassy...