Word: sweeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard JV and freshman boats completed the sweep of the regatta with wins in their respective races against the Elis. The JV squad raced its three-mile race in 15:05.2, outlasting Yale by 5.5 seconds. The Crimson freshman crew barely held on to top its Eli opponent by 1.8 seconds over a two-mile course...
...only as a show of force turned into a bloodbath. Soon armed soldiers and unarmed protesters were locked in furious combat. Ruan Ming, a former lecturer on Marxism at Beijing's Communist Party School, argues that a propaganda blitz mounted by the government last week to justify the Tiananmen sweep was an attempt to "salvage the situation and save face...
...role and replace him with the more conservative and orthodox President Yang. Beijing analysts discounted the theory as overly sensational. In fact, Deng is the most hard-line enemy of the students. Only the party turmoil may have delayed him from lining up support for his position. The massive sweep through Tiananmen could not have been facilitated without the cooperation of the various military factions that owe fealty to such veterans of the revolutionary war as Yang, Li and Peng Zhen...
...general strike of the clergy to protest reforms allowing witnesses in court to swear by any "divine book," instead of the Koran alone. By the spring of 1963 he was under house arrest for telling huge crowds at Qum that just a "flick of the finger" could sweep away the Shah. Soon after his release a few months later, Khomeini was arrested again, this time for fomenting riots against a modernization program that included land reform. He was imprisoned for half a year, then exiled to Turkey. He soon moved to the Iraqi city of An Najaf...
January 11-12: The men's basketball team sweeps Penn and Princeton on the road--it is only the second sweep of the "Lost Weekend" in Ivy League history...