Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defending Eastern champions had no problems against the Lions, racing to a 53-8 lead after six events. Not counting the events Harvard swam for exhibition, the Crimson swept every race of the meet...
...will add $1.3 billion to the taxpayers' cost of repaying depositors and unloading Lincoln's washed-out investments. "My responsibility was to see that this was not a lynch mob after Keating," Wall explained to TIME last week. "The San Francisco office has a history of being hysterical, overzealous, swept away by smoke where there is no gun." Yet ; Wall's Washington audit eventually confirmed San Francisco's warning to the Senators that Lincoln was a "ticking time bomb." Wall's auditors discovered a whole ticking arsenal, in fact, but not for two long years...
...just started shaking and tearing at everything it could get hold of," said real estate broker Ike Carroll. Jeweler Robert Husman, buried under debris in his demolished store, squirmed to the surface. "I came up looking at the taillights of a Toyota station wagon," he recalled. The wind had swept the car atop the fallen roof of the building...
...Alan Bond was riding very high in America, and in Australia he was a hero. "Bondy," as his country called him, was the prime mover in the syndicate that funded the design, construction and testing of Australia II, the 12-meter sloop with the controversial winged keel that swept to victory over the U.S. defender off Newport in 1983, leaving, for the first time in yachting history, an empty plinth in the New York Yacht Club where the America's Cup used to stand...
From then on, it was all Harvard, as the Crimson drove the field with ease. Myers rumbled for 17 yards on one play, Perry passed to tight end Kevin Collins for 31 more on another. Finally, running back Art McMahon swept around right end for the score. Kicker Brian Kotz connected on his point after to give Harvard an 8-point lead it would never relinquish...