Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard swept all the singles matches But one crucial win was especially precarious. Number five man Ken Kleinfeld had won the second set of his match 6-3, after losing the first by the same score. In the last set Kleinfeld was down 4-1. He struggled to a 4-4 tie, and moved up to a score of 6-5 in his favor in the deciding game. Kleinfeld won the first point. His opponent Billy Way then took the next. Kleinfeld double faulted the next two points. After missing a first serve, Kleinfeld's whole match rested...
Yesterday afternoon was no exception, as a heated debate broke out in the stands while the Eastern Association's two undefeated teams fought an equally heated battle on the courts. The teams went indoors for doubles play with the score deadlocked at 3-3 before the Crimson swept the doubles and took the match...
...Harvard women's tennis team's swept the top four singles matches and all three doubles contests to down host Brown, 7-2, yesterday...
...explosion of economic despair in Brazil's most populous state (25 million) posed the first major challenge to Governor Andre Franco Montoro, who has been in office for barely a month. A member of the center-left Brazilian Democratic Movement, Montoro was swept into power last November in the first open elections to be held since the military took charge in 1964. Though Montoro used to decry the heavyhanded police tactics of Brazil's authoritarian federal government before his election, he found last week that he also had to call out military police when a surging crowd...
...pulled out of the yard. Inexplicably, he then jumped from the van with a shotgun and declared he would shoot. As the crowd dispersed, Nienaber fired, shooting Mkhize fatally in the chest. The police claimed that Nienaber acted in self-defense, but public outrage over the killing has swept South Africa. Says Civil Rights Activist Josie Adler: "Saul was not a radical. He just wanted to keep his land...