Word: swept
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Entering the doubles with the match already won, the netwomen swept the final three contests, not even relinquishing a set to UPenn. "Our doubles play is greatly improved over past years," coach Peter Felske said yesterday. Noteworthy is the first doubles team of Pe and Roberts, the reigning New England intercollegiate doubles champs...
That same spirit echoed through Beacon Hill's venerable Athenaeum one snow-swept evening this past winter as more than 500 Bostonians gathered to launch a campaign to raise $125,000 to "save the Shaw." John D. O'Bryant, black president of the Boston school committee, quoted Washington's 1897 speech and added: "In all truth, we have been slow to learn the lesson of that...
...counseled 1,500 veterans in 14 months. One veteran stopped by to talk on his way to commit an armed robbery. He was dissuaded. Another, Daniel Parker, 30, tries to exorcise his nightmares. Sometimes when he sees his three children sleeping, he flashes back to the day his patrol swept a village. Trained to shoot at anything that moved, he fired at a basket. When he turned it over, he found three dead babies. After being wounded and returning to the U.S. in 1969, Parker had difficulty keeping a job. In the past year, counselors have talked with him about...
...branch levees burst, spilling water over the low, rice-growing terrain, affecting some 6.2 million peasant families. Says one observer of the disaster area: "Much of the land is covered by silt and debris, and can't be cultivated. There are villages where absolutely everything has been swept away." Though a cleanup is well under way, tens of thousands of Chinese are still living in makeshift tar-paper shacks, and millions are getting by on a starvation diet of about 14 oz. of coarse grains daily. Nearly a quarter of the preschool children in the hardest hit area have...
...racquetwomen scored their first victory of the road trip against Michigan State March 25. Bougas, Schulman, Roberts and Debbie Kaliss won in singles, and Harvard swept the doubles matches for a 7-2 victory. Notable among the winners was the team of Pe and Roberts, which defeated the reigning Big Ten doubles champs in three sets...