Word: swept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed poised to win the match serving at 5-3 and 3-1 in the ninth game of the third set. But after Zimmerman missed a backhand volley, and double-faulted, Horne passed him down the line and the set moved to 5-4. At 6-6, Horne swept the tie-breaker, 5-0, the last point coming as Zimmerman netted an approach shot...
...Tigers have beaten most of the best teams in the East. During their southern trip they breezed past Miami and ACC teams Duke and North Carolina. Navy gave the Tigers their biggest scare, taking the bottom four singles matches, but Princeton swept the doubles to come...
This quiet life was disturbed two years ago by the visit of an investigator for the Silkwoods. Smith made a decision that swept him into a complex legal fight. "I figured if somebody, no matter who, asked a question, I ought to answer," he recalls. "Well, pretty soon it was the Silkwood people, the Kerr-McGee people and the reporters, and then I'm in court. If nobody had found me to ask questions, I wouldn't be involved in the damn thing...
...double-loss left the Crimson at 3-3 in the Eastern League, making a sweep of Harvard's nine remaining league contests necessary for any shot at the league crown Penn swept Dartmouth at Hanover Saturday to up its league-leading record...
Playing outdoors at home for the first time this season, the Crimson swept all six singles matches without dropping a set against a Lion squad seriously depleted by the loss of four of its top 1978 players...