Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since the EIBL schedule has been expanded to 14 games, Park felt that every team in the league is likely to lose at least two or three games. A sweep of today's games at Columbia would move the Crimson right back into contention...
...Colonel Robert B. Luper, an artillery commander; Colonel Nels A. Parson Jr., Americal chief of staff; Lieut. Colonels David C. Gavin and William D. Guinn, American advisers serving with the South Vietnamese; Major Charles C. Calhoun, executive and operations officer of the task force that had responsibility for the sweep through My Lai; Major Robert W. McKnight, operations officer at the brigade level; Major Frederic W. Watke, commander of a helicopter company; Captain Kenneth W. Boatman, an artillery forward observer, and Captain Dennis H. Johnson, assigned to an intelligence detachment. Some have been charged with lying to the Peers panel...
...just after the New York City police used nightsticks, saps, blackjacks and large, bony knuckles to sweep the student occupiers from the sanctums of Columbia University. At this moment, a woman identified as Mrs. Jeanette Cohen was heard to cry: "That the police should do this to such boys! They are all ninety percenters, A minus at the least." The police, most of them from lower-middle-class backgrounds where the status climb stopped with the civil service, had a slightly different view. To many of them, "such boys" were a puzzling, infuriating, foulmouthed, cop-baiting bunch of nigger-loving...
...claim may be inaccurate, but no Soviet reader would impute any negative intent to it. To the Western visitor, the majority of Moscow street sweepers appear to be women-and the older the better. Babushka seems to have only two choices: baby-sit with the grandchildren or help sweep the streets. The circumstances of this exclusively geriatric female occupation is not completely lost on the Russians, however. During the Khrushchev regime (remember him?), the following joke was current in Moscow: It was rumored Khrushchev had an argument with a woman member of the party Presidium. "I'll have...
...Watson took second and third in the second event, the 200-free, the Crimson got a bad break in the 50-free. An important match-up between Josten and Cartmell failed to materialize when Josten jump-started twice and was disqualified. Teammate Craig Sewell rallied to prevent a Yale sweep, but Harvard trailed...