Word: sweepingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson finally won--at Princeton, 60-50, Friday night, and at Princeton, 60-50, Friday night, and at Pennsylvania Saturday night, 77-75, for Harvard's first-ever sweep of the perennial Ivy League powerhouses...
...book. But more importantly, there goes Ben Hart again, trying to claim art and Babe Ruth for the Republicans. The dispiritedness and aimlessness of liberals today feeds this sort of foolishness. Liberals themselves made similar claims in 1964, when Lyndon Johnson and a slew of liberal Congressmen seemed to sweep Republicans into eternal oblivion. The Republicans came back swinging...
...sweep of the 880, led by Cliff Sheehan, Co-Captain John Perkins' narrow victory in the 1000, and second and third place finishes in the 5000 that set up the dramatic relay confrontation...
...Resignation, was published in 1947. It is a derivative exercise in the macabre and surrealistic, enlivened with a touch of humor. A boy overhears a doctor conferring with his mother: "Madam, your child has a grave illness: he is dead." The ghosts of Edgar Allan Poe and O. Henry sweep through these early tales, the fear of being buried alive confirmed or denied through trick endings...
...small in number and too ill equipped to threaten the Sandinistas seriously, but they are also too stubborn to give up. "The contras know they can't win, but they won't admit it," says a prominent Honduran businessman. "At first they thought they would sweep into Managua. Now they know they are in a quagmire...