Word: swept
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...often is beat the New York Islanders, who have been the Stanley Cup champions for four years, or as long as the Oilers have been in the league. After rolling up 424 goals during the 80-game regular season last year and sailing through the playoffs, Edmon ton was swept meekly in the finals by the Islanders. Though the Oilers' record is now the best in the league, two more losses to New York last month depressed them momentarily. To be sure, not enough to exchange their freewheeling skaters' game for any proven pattern that emphasizes defense. Knowing...
...cause to complain: after 6 in. of snow, the temperature dropped to 24° below zero, a record for that day. That was only one of the 70 low-temperature records broken from Washington State to Illinois on Thursday, the first official day of winter, as an arctic front swept in the coldest stretch of December weather in more than 50 years...
Once the catheter is in place, the laser is carefully aimed and fired at the obstruction. The lumps of fat "melt like butter," says Lee. The debris is swept up through a vacuum tube. The so-called laserscope has been tested on animals, and Lee hopes to begin trials involving humans within six months...
Thomas Schuler took that first event and then followed the example he had just set for himself when his shot put flew a winning 40-ft., 11 in in an event that the harriers swept just as convincingly. Steve Pinney then cleared 14-ft., 6-in. to win a pole vault event that didn't even feature a simple Eagle competitor before B.C.'s Craig Coffey secured two of the Eagles three field event victories by jumpy 6 ft 102 in the high and long jumpy respectively...
...place first five times in 17 tries Saturday at the Gordon Indoor Track, 100-44. The meet proved stirring for the sole reason that Harvard won 11 events, but also anticlimactic because the Eagles were never closer than the nine points they lost to the Crimson as the harriers swept the 35-lb weight context the very first event of what wins to be the glorious day for a Harvard spend that had lost, 78 1/2-58 1/2, to Army just a week earlier...