Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...South Africa' s whites head for their first general election in six years, opponents of the country' s system of racial segregation are standing up. Some members of the once nearly monolithic "white tribe" are looking for change. Even the cradle of the volk, Stellenbosch University, is being swept by an intellectual revolution as professors demand real reform. See WORLD...
...Harvard swept the Big Red, 9-0, to increase its consecutive-match winning streak to eight and improve its unbeaten Ivy League record to 6-0 (11-5 overall...
Last year Harvard swept Army, 2-1 (behind a complete game by Marchok), and 4-3, and split with Columbia, winning the opener, 4-2, but dropping the nightcap in eight innings...
...sheer discursiveness of The Thanatos Syndrome lends itself to all manner of loose, didactic, free-associative diatribe. We're so swept up by the movement of the novel--and this novel does move; it has a wonderful clip--that we find ourselves swallowing pop-philosophical placebos, medicines Percy, a physician, might have prescribed better elsewhere...
...results were two losses, as Bentley swept the Crimson in a double-header at Soldiers Field. The Crimson dropped the opener, 2-1, in eight innings, and was crushed in the nightcap...