Word: sweeps
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...Lions are currently 8-2 in the Ivies, so it is imperative they sweep Dartmouth and Harvard in order to set the stage for their March 3 battle with the 9-1 Quakers for a share in the championship. The weekend contest could be equally pivotal for Harvard. If the Crimson can get by the Lions it would open up the possibility of a three-way tie for second with Columbia and Princeton...
Realistically, the icemen could lose to Cornell and B.U., but sweep Yale and beat Dartmouth to pull it off. But judging from the squad's most recent endeavors, how realistic is that...
From Jijiga, the Ethiopians could easily sweep another 95 miles to the Somali border. The big question is: What will they do when they reach that frontier? One member of the Ethiopian junta told Wood: "I can assure you that Ethiopia is not going to invade Somalia." Nonetheless, the Somalis are fearful that the Ethiopians if they reconquer the Ogaden will not be able to resist the impulse to slice through northern Somalia...
Things started well in last night's finals as Harvard took its third relay in the meet, the 200-yd, freestyle, making it a clean sweep of the freestyle relays for the all-star team of Liz Kelly, Sherry Lubbers, Laurie Downey and Jane Fayer. Fayer touched out her Princeton freestyle adversary by .44 second for the Crimson victory...
These are only a few of the thousands of known incidents that shed a sliver of light on the sweep of Soviet intelligence activities round the world. Western authorities view the KGB as a worthy and persistent foe. Says a former high CIA and State Department official: "They're a lot better than we think: I think they're damn good...