Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They've got some good fencers from Sweden and New York, including a nationally ranked performer who could easily sweep three bouts," he said. "Unlike the past, we'll have to do some worrying about them this year," he added later...
Gambril's work should pay huge dividends this winter. With everyone back from an 8-1 team that set Harvard records in 17 of 18 events, plus a third consecutive crop of outstanding freshmen, a clean sweep of those records is quite probable...
Mike Cook, coming off a triple gold medal performance at the Maccabiah Games, gives Harvard the continual threat of a sweep in both freestyle events, as will freshman Miles Standish...
Though last week's elections were by and large a Democratic sweep, the victories were not clearly a Watergate windfall. Democrats won in a number of races because the Democratic Party was simply recovering its normal strength among the electorate after the McGovern debacle of 1972. The party picked up the governorship in New Jersey and took control of both houses of the state legislature. Democratic mayors were elected in New York, Minneapolis and Louisville, and black Democrats took over city hall in Detroit, Raleigh, N.C., and Dayton. Democrats swept municipal elections in Connecticut and Kentucky...
Plowden starts innocently enough by depicting the vast sweep of prairie spaces, made human-and eloquent-by scattered farmhouses and fences. Man's hand is clearly benevolent there. Soon another marvelous photo captures a church on a cross-crowned hill. Despite its almost biblical overtones, the scene is catapulted into the present by the true nature of the crosses-actually a telegraph pole and a highway sign -and by adjacent State Highway No. 7, apparently a road to nowhere. Which is really the more important, the photo seems to ask, road or church...