Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tremondous honor to be able to contribute to the team victory. I'm so pleased that we swept the top three places. Julian and Geoff deserve as much credit as I do, they drove me to the win," Phillips said yesterday...
That old pragmatist Franklin Roosevelt, whom Reagan idolized from the prairie long ago, was not at all sure just where he was headed; events swept him along, and he improvised to meet them. Some of Roosevelt's aides are still around town. They recall drafting new legislation in the Mayflower Hotel even as F.D.R. gave his Inaugural Address, then rushing the documents to members of Congress still in their toppers and frock coats...
...gain from a festive association with John Paul. Everywhere, as if on cue, Filipinos were on hand to enact earnest welcoming playlets, sing, dance or pose as "tribesmen" in outdated garb. During one motorcade, a phalanx of trained water buffalo knelt in reverence just as the pontifical car swept by, while at another point a beaming bride and groom in a mock wedding paused in mid-ceremony to wave to the Pope from a bamboo roadside chapel...
...hand for his seventh-straight clutch performance in the Harvard net was Wade Lau, who swept 30 shots aside. Lau has now allowed 14 goals in his last seven games, which include the five Harvard wins and a pair of 3-2 losses...
When guerrillas of the Sandinista National Liberation Front swept to power in July 1979, hopes were high that the forces that had united to overthrow hated Dictator Anastasio Somoza would join together to rebuild the war-shattered country. That did not happen. The nine-member Sandinista directorate, which is the real political power behind the country's five-man governing junta, has angered Nicaragua's nonradical friends abroad by adopting a strongly pro-Cuban and pro-Soviet foreign policy. The Sandinistas have also alienated nearly all their onetime anti-Somoza allies at home by trying to impose...