Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Saturday, Harvard rolled to an 8-1 triumph over the Cavaliers and a 9-0 sweep of the hosts...
...Crimson's top six will travel to West Point this weekend to compete for the national six-man championship and attempt to complete their sweep of the three major college squash titles...
That's because the weekend sweep by the clubs Harvard had swept on the road five weeks earlier left the Crimson two-and-a-half games behind liague-leading Penn (8-1 Ivy) and left the Crimson's dreams of a first-ever Ivy crown and a second-ever NCAA tournament berth all but decked by a one-two punch...
...fared much better. After two months of special training, complained one U.S. official, "they spent months and months doing nothing. The government's choice was to avoid confrontation, so they stayed in their barracks." Finally, last October, 93 members of the heavily armed paramilitary unit were sent on a sweep of the Beni, a roadless wilderness east of the Andes in which some 200 cocaine barons process and ship coca out of huge estates, some as large as 100,000 acres and many equipped with processing plants and airstrips. The biggest target of all was Suarez, who maintains a feudal...
...sweep of Penn and Princeton on the weekend that Carrabino celebrated his 23rd birthday would vault Harvard into first place in the race for the coveted Ancient Eight crown it's never won, and would give Harvard Coach Frank McLaughlin 100 career victories...