Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tigers, after a slow start, rolled to a 22-7-1 record, including a 9-6, 11-2 sweep of EIBL champion Harvard at Cambridge. In District II they were 16-2. But an ECAC rule which forbids the selection of more than one team from the Eastern League denied Princeton a chance to be invited since Harvard had already gotten a spot. Among the four teams invited from Princeton's district is Seton Hall, a team which...
Washaner and Cavanagh led the doubles sweep by beating Tansey and Chambers, 6-1, 6-3. Loring and Barnett topped Svigals and Allen, 7-5, 6-2. The third doubles was abbreviated to a pro set and Briggs and Brock defeated Cleveland and Anderson...
George McGovern is the philosopher, well read, thoughtful, open as a South Dakota sky, every idea floating up and out for all to see. Some are only half-formed. He may be too honest and too open. His singular intensity seems sometimes to sweep him beyond the fine limits of good judgment. He ends up beyond any serious constituency, too strident on the war, too quick to embrace any dissenter, suspected finally of being an opportunist, without the relief of generating excitement...
...base of support for larger designs. The left deliberately sought to create a crisis for the government, and it seems likely that neither the left nor the government really knew what would happen once the crisis had been set. Thus the thousands of troops on call, and the preventative sweep by police at the campsite in West Potomac Park, and the mass arrests on Monday of anyone who might have become a participant in a developing crisis confrontation...
...Washington, at least in part, to show our strength, and we must recognize that at best it is potential rather than actual strength. The case with which the police were able to sweep the camp Sunday and secure the city Tuesday, and the inability or unwillingness-however sensible that might be-of the demonstrators to devise tactics that would shut down the city amounts to a restatement on a higher level of struggle, the powerlessness to end the war or effect social change that characterized the previous level...