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Word: sweeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sniper Shots. Though many independents stayed home or picketed peacefully, the week leading up to the settlement exploded in violence as the more mindless owner-drivers tried to sweep the highways clear of trucks by intimidating nonstriking truckers. One driver, Claudie Nix, 50, was fatally shot in his moving truck near Bridgeville, Del.; earlier, another driver was killed when a large rock was thrown at his windshield and his truck crashed. Other truckers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds; the most recent victim was Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: Payoff for Terror on the Road | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

...Last week ABC Television presented Can Ellen Be Saved?, a TV movie that depicted an aggressive, doctrinaire Jesus sect called the Children of Jesus. The fictitious sect was obviously a thinly disguised counterpart of the real-life Children of God, complete with a West Coast farming commune, buses that sweep into cities to pick up new converts, biblical aliases for the members and a frank affection for the money and property gleaned from converts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Children of Doom | 2/18/1974 | See Source »

With a 20-point, 15-rebound performance guaranteed from Ron Haigler every night, and the best of Philadelphia's b-ball intelligentsia, the Quakers require only a modicum of coaching genius to sweep the league...

Author: By James Cramer, | Title: Creme de la Cramer | 2/15/1974 | See Source »

...haven't seen that kind of sweep in 22 years of coaching," coach Edo Marion said yesterday. "And only two of the nine bouts were even close...

Author: By David A. Copithorne, | Title: Crimson Fencers Cream MIT, 18-9; Come Alive to Sweep Last Nine Bouts | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

...addition to Rutledge's 3-0 sweep, Stephen Hobbes won both his matches, and Loren Joseph and Michael Szymonifka each split theirs...

Author: By David A. Copithorne, | Title: Crimson Fencers Cream MIT, 18-9; Come Alive to Sweep Last Nine Bouts | 2/14/1974 | See Source »

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