Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, after the rest of the matches were over and most of the team had gone home, Kalish and Meyer swept two sets to win third doubles and clinch the team title for the Crimson...
Then, magically, the rain stopped. After a three-hour delay, the yellow tarpaulin was swept off the field and the game began. For television, faced with a disruption of its prime-time schedule, it was a nuisance. For Les Expos, the season...
...dark, and Cloquet had a split second to decide if he would risk his life to save a stranger. Unwilling to make such a momentous decision on an empty stomach, he went to a restaurant and dined." And a few sentences later, on Sartre: "A feeling of nausea swept over him as he contemplated the implications of his action. This was an existential nausea, caused by his intense awareness of the contingency of life, and could not be relieved with an ordinary Alka-Seltzer. What was required was an Existential Alka-Seltzer--a product sold in many Left Bank drugstores...
...ghost that presided over the wind-swept Business School field was a ghost of offenses past, or rather, the ghost of a no-offense past, with the booters playing the Lions evenly or even dominating at midfield, but failing to capitalize on several excellent scoring opportunities...
...situation like this to continue." Wearing a white vinyl coverall over her fashionable suit, yellow plastic bootees over her high-heeled shoes, a respirator and protective gloves, English recently climbed on a rooftop and looked out over the sea of barrels. She broke into a wry laugh, grandly swept an arm toward the rubble and declared, "Some day, my son, this will all be yours...