Word: swept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Captain Caryn Curry's 25-point barrage led the Harvard women's basketball team to their finest performance of their 8-4 season, as the squad swept past Dartmouth, 80-65, last night...
...arranged to take his oath three days early. The new Governor then ordered Fred Thompson, former chief minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, to take charge of all pardon and commutation documents. Immediately after the swearing-in ceremony, agents of the FBI and Tennessee Bureau of Criminal Identification swept through the capitol, searching filing cabinets for evidence and handing out subpoenas requiring some of Blanton's aides and close friends to appear before the federal grand jury. The agents wedged shut the door to the Governor's office, barring Blanton and his aides from removing any documents...
...three weeks in 1956, the mutinous Hungarians had conducted a revolt to drive the Soviets out of their homeland. They had also waited in some agony for American intervention, but none came. On Nov. 4 reinforced Soviet Army forces swept through Budapest and crushed the rebellion there. By Nov. 14, when the last rebel stronghold fell, about 25,000 Hungarians had been killed...
...Chamberlain is unconcerned. His life is ordered and promising--he plays tennis on Sundays on his backyard court, spends a lot of time troubleshooting on the phone ("Right, Ed, I'll check on it first thing Monday morning"), and any strange occurrences in the outside world can be quickly swept away with a flick of the wiper-washer switch on his blue-gray Volvo. Ignore for the moment that Chamberlain seems to have only recently been introduced to his family, that his wife (Olivia Hamnett) is rather oaken, and that Chamberlain, who supposedly grew up in Sydney, hasn...
Number five Wendy Sonnabend also swept her Williams foe without allowing ten points in any one game...