Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DeFries, Maryann Harring and Jane Bliss swept the 800-meter event, while Leslie Cooper and Mary Barrett captured first and second in the 1500-meter event Lois Brommer easily won the steeple-chase, covering the 3000-meters...
Despite a goalie who was characterized by Harvard Coach Steve Pike as "particularly weak" and despite the presence of both highly touted Brown and Queens, the Princeton women's water polo team swept all five of its games this weekend to earn first place in the Harvard Invitational Water Polo tournament Blodgett Pool...
...struggles preceding independence, Toure allied himself with the movement for African nationalism. He was instrumental in abolishing Guinea's tribal chieftaincies, which he considered corrupt, and in establishing more than 4,000 elected village councils. When the nation's first election was held in 1958, he was swept into office. "revolutionary socialism" to industrialize the economy, and he turned to the Soviet Union for assistance. But Guinea remained beset by chronic underproduction, inflation and black-marketeering. In the mid-'70s, Toure made a bow toward the West...
...gets the nomination, it will be extremely difficult for him to alter his image sufficiently to prevent a surge of independents to the Republican ticket. Not only would the Democrats' hopes for the Presidency be dashed, but vulnerable right-wing senators like Gordon Humphrey and Jesse Helms could be swept back into office for another six years on such a Republican tide...
...delivery scam was part of an intensive man hunt that has swept California during the past 2½ months. Conducted by the U.S. Marshals Service and local law-enforcement officers, FIST (Fugitive Investigative Strike Team) netted 2,116 arrests. Most of the captured felons were being sought for violent crimes, and on the average each had five felony counts on his record. The criminals included 24 accused or convicted murderers, 39 rapists, 13 kidnapers and 272 robbers. Said Marshals Director Stanley Morris of FIST: "I cannot think of any more successful operation in such a time span...