Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's hitters produced more runs over the weekend than they had in the seven previous EIBL games this season, and it looked as if the Crimson was going to climb into first place with a three-game sweep of Army and Cornell when the Big Red scored six runs in the eighth inning to win the second game of Saturday's doubleheader, 14-8. Harvard beat the Cadets the day before, 7-5, and earlier in the afternoon Roz Brayton delivered his customary shut-out while his teammates hit three home runs to humiliate the former league leaders...
...bills from Russell Southern Athletic Jersey Co., Brooklyn, N.Y. were staggering: $31.50 every time the Boston University varsity heavies lost a race, $126.00 every time it was a four-race sweep; a potential loss of $598.50 a season in surrendered rowing shirts...
...third varsity and second freshman boats completed the Crimson sweep by blowing their competition off the course...
...things going on here," muttered Penn coach Al Molloy, whose squash team had also lost to Harvard 8-1 last winter. Moments later, Lindner beat Loeb, and it was 5-0, Harvard. Ingard eventually outlasted Penn's John Schwartz 4-6, 7-5, 6-2, to complete the singles sweep. Later in the doubles, only the No. 2 unit of Nielsen and Ingard failed to win. It may not have been unbelievable, but it was very damned impressive, and Coach Jack Barnaby was jubilant. "It was a great match," he grinned. "Magnificent tennis." And it virtually assured Harvard...
...This is unfortunate, as typographical style can offer important clues to the emotions underlying SDS prose, such as the conclusion to a letter of January 25 in which the otherwise uninformative comment--"We would appreciate a response as soon as possible"--curves upward on the page in a rising sweep of alarm. A March 2 SDS contribution to this anthology was either typed on a Brobdingnagian typewriter or was blown up by the editors--a marvellous expression of their subconscious wish, though they themselves warn SDS in their introduction not "to advertise its wish as fact"--to approximately three times...