Word: swept
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After taking the medley relay by half a pool length, the Crimson swept the first four individual events. It was not until the one-meter diving that Columbia recorded its first victory, when Lion springboard ace Mike Gurnee edged the Crimson's Steve Schramm...
Harvard won seven and tied two of the fourteen contests played between the intramural champions of the two schools in touch football, soccer, and tackle football, but Yale swept all three championship games...
...Ride Natty Ride," is the best on the album. Marley warns the Rastafari that unless they struggle, their way of life will soon be swept away by the forces of modernization. Once again, Marley refers to the need for violence...
...existing order than wearily convinced that a change of command at city hall would not make much difference. But as the results in Houston, Miami, San Francisco, Cleveland, Philadelphia and Minneapolis demonstrated, no one can take the city voter for granted: the bloc appeals and political styles that swept to triumph in the last election may guarantee defeat in the next...
...Roman Catholic clergy, the junta had announced a crash program of political reform. Though it quickly won support and a pledge of "significant aid" from the U.S., the five-man junta may fall apart before the program is carried out. Rumors of a countercoup by right-wing military officers swept through the capital last week, together with reports that the oligarchy was prepared to pay as much as $20 million to any group that could restore the country to military control...