Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maureen Finn hit a penalty stroke from just outside the top of the penalty circle Left wing Jennifer White picked it up in a crowd and slapped the ball toward the Husky net. Northeastern goalie Sandy Ward made a pad save, but Martin was there for the rebound. Finn swept the ball to the right and poked it past the diving Ward into the corner of the goal to knot the score at the 19 minute mark...
...that no other bright entrepreneur had yet written a serious book about Woody Allen. So long an omission was surprising but, in a strange way, appropriate; for one of the most tantalizing aspects of Woody Allen's much-touted talent has always been its uncertainty. Even after Annie Hall swept the Oscars, there were those who argued that Allen's brilliance denatured outside the narrow confines of Manhattan, and that the jokes and insights New York fans loved would not only fall flat but offend when transpose to a different environment. You never knew, either, whether the latest Allen film...
...ritual in revolutionary Iran: the late-night summons, the slow walk along bleak prison corridors, and finally the waiting firing squad. Last week the executioners' guns took aim, on the specific orders of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, at one of the founding figures of the Islamic revolution that swept away Shah Reza Pahlavi in February 1979: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 46, the man who sprang to international prominence as Iran's Foreign Minister during the U.S. hostage crisis. Ghotbzadeh was shot after a 26-day trial in which he was accused by the Islamic military prosecutor of plotting to overthrow...
...Quartararo at the Harvard 42. The tight end put a nice move on Fuller, then ran out of the safety's attempted tackle and carried the ball all the way to the UMass one before Minuteman defensive back Dwayne Lopes made a touchdown-saving tackle. Two plays later. Allard swept into the end zone on a rollout left, and after the PAT, Harvard...
American Jews faced trying times this past summer in the wake of unpopular Israeli military excursions. Though their support for their brethren remains rock-ribbed in places like Brookline, many are deeply unsettled about the Begin-Sharon defense plan and what it bodes. These fears must not be swept under the carpet...