Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Yesterday's loss was the first time the Middies have ever failed to win a single game on their home courts. The Crimson's, sweep was a tremendous team accomplishment, considering that Navy only lost to Penn last month, 6-3, on the Quakers' courts...
Penn still has the top two collegiate squash players in Palmer Page and Berry. But Navy beat Penn at three bottom positions, and the Crimson's sweep of the Middies gives Harvard a good chance to take five of the bottom seven matches against any opponent...
Once again, Russia's heavy artillery was rolled out against that nation's greatest living novelist last week. In a major policy pronouncement, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda vowed that vigilance would henceforth be exercised to "sweep away" Alexander Solzhenitsyn and other "wretched renegades." The author's banned novels, Cancer Ward and The First Circle, which were bestsellers in the West, were excoriated by Pravda as "lampoons on the Soviet Union which blacken the achievements of our fatherland and the dignity of the Soviet people...
...closest contest of the day came at number one, where junior Dave Fish rallied to sweep the final three games of a four-game match against Amherst's Mike Pelletier...
...only other close game was at number nine where Neil Vosters beat Mike Gustin, 18-15, 15-13, 15-7. Vosters dominated the match when he played aggressively, but he slipped into a defensive style several times and had to rally to sweep the match...