Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...easy way when difficult or dramatic means are available, the New York Yankees completed their season of miracle comebacks with a record-setting World Series victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Yankees became the first team to stake their opponents to a two-game lead and then sweep four straight games...
Winthrop quarterback John Hendricks and wide receiver Steve Barrand gave the Mather secondary fits, clicking for six receptions, including the game's first score with only four minutes gone in the first quarter. Jude Kearney's sweep made it 13-0 before southpaw Hendricks hit Rob Inches with a 63-yd. strike to turn the game into a rout. Mather's Steve O'Hara averted the shutout with a 50-yd. off-tackle burst midway through the final stanza...
German spies and student demonstrations don't sweep through Cambridge often; everyday life in the pipe-filled tunnels is much less glamorous. Tall tales and legends aside, most undergraduates rarely come into contact with the network. Some sharp observers, however, will note that through early fall, a swath of grass in the Yard stays green longer than the rest, and through winter that patch melts away its cover of snow and remains in sight. These few will see beneath the legend of the Harvard tunnels...
Last year, Dartmouth fans sported buttons that bragged of a Big Green sweep and at the end of the race, the top Dartmouth finishers unfurled a school banner, waving it as they crossed the tape...
...their music is an aquired taste. Unfortunately, pop music radio and listeners, en masse, have never seemed to have a great affinity for the Hall and Oates sound; and the music on their latest release, Along the Red Ledge, shows just why a Hall-and-Oates-mania will never sweep the country...