Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Boss, who swept Eagle Amy Richardson, 6-0, 6-2, led a Crimson contingent that won five out of six singles matches. Other straight set winners were junior Cyndy Austrian (6-3, 6-4) and sophomore Kristin Bland...
...second was even more impressive. Fighting a rainstorm and a muddy field last night at Springfield College, the Harvard men's lacrosse team mounted a deluge of shots at the Maroons' net and swept away the hosts...
...defeat in the varsity contest was an unsatisfactory end to the day, but the Crimson swept every other race. The junior varsity, first freshman, third varsity, and second freshmen all won their heats by fairly comfortable margins...
...intervals, the author lowers his fists, but much of the anecdota reconsiders a series of onetime celebrities, hacks and propagandists who have long since been swept into the dustbin of history -- with Hook handling the broom. He was performing those janitorial services at N.Y.U., when classes were shut down during a '60s antiwar protest. Hook was an early opponent of U.S. involvement in Viet Nam but characteristically went on teaching. At one session, he recalls, "three raucous S.D.S. students burst into the classroom, shouting 'Strike! Everyone out!' No one moved. I turned and shouted, 'I am placing you under...
...Coptic Christians in southern Egypt have been less than neighborly in recent years. So the fire was fanned when rumors spread last month that Coptic troublemakers were spraying the veils of Muslim women with a mysterious substance that caused crosses to appear on the material. As the tale swept through several towns, mobs of Muslim youths went on a rampage...