Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Head Coach Dave Peterson's Team USA squad has just completed a seven-game sweep of the Hockey East Conference, destroying the collegians by an average score...
Rumors of a shutdown sweep the Palazzo Mezzanotte trading floor as the opening bell fails to ring. Finally the dealing begins, one hour late. As Fiat, Olivetti and other stocks lose 10% of their value, trading is stopped in each...
...then, did the rout give way to a rally? Traditionally, that happens after every so-called selling climax (even in 1929), because most investors who were thinking of selling have been cleaned out in one grand sweep and buyers start looking for newly cheap shares. The rally in the middle of last week was given particularly powerful support by some 200 major corporations that started buying up their own stock at bargain prices, in part to keep it out of the hands of would-be raiders. The crash put at least a temporary damper on mergers and acquisitions anyway. Several...
Every year the World Series comes as a surprise. In Drabowsky's year the Koufax-Drysdale Dodgers were supposed to sweep the Baltimore Orioles, but they got swept instead, with Moe striking out six in a row. This year first the Cardinals were expected to overwhelm the Twins, then the Twins were poised to obliterate the Cardinals. The reverse happened in turn. A grand-slam homer from a lead-off hitter like Minnesota's Gladden qualifies as a marvel, but the home run later hit by Lawless was a miracle...
...good to me ever since I stopped trying to play it.") But the older Cardinals manager, Coach Red Schoendienst, still likes to flutter his fingers at the opponents in a tried-and-true hex. Something was working. With bunts, balks and stolen bases, the Cardinals finished a three-game sweep on their own plastic turf (3-1, 7-2 and 4-2) to assume a one-game lead...