Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...winter nights when the icy west wind swept the town, I sometimes halted on my post office run to talk to Russell Piper in his tiny dry-cleaning plant. The steam and heat built up a coat of ice an inch or more thick on the windows. He was a shadowy figure behind the glacial facade. But he offered a cup of hot chocolate and unquenchable cheer, even working through the night cleaning other people's grease spots. Rural culture lived through...
Quote of the Week: "My team never really got started out there tonight. We looked like scared high school kids."--Lowell women's volleyball Coach Ann Leonard, after her squad was swept last Tuesday by Harvard...
Harvard (4-5) had swept the first two sets, 15-8, 15-9, and seemed to be cruising to an easy straight-set win in the squad's last home game of the year...
Colgate played Central Connecticut, which up until that point in the tournament had not even won a set. If Colgate had swept Central Connecticut as expected, the Red Raiders would have advanced to the semifinals. Colgate did win the match, but not in straight sets. Since both Harvard and Colgate finished with a 2-1 tournament records, the last semifinal berth was determined according number of sets won and lost...
...beautiful day for a wedding -- crisp, clear and, for China in midsummer, relatively cool. The latest typhoon's high winds have swept away the air pollution, and under a brilliant blue sky the guests are chatting in the hollow of a terraced field beside a single spindly tree -- symbolic decoration in a country whose scant arable land continues to disappear. Arranged neatly alongside the makeshift altar, the gifts intended for the bride's parents include a new refrigerator, a 24-in. color television set and a jet black Yamaha motorcycle. The presents are ogled, but atop the TV a photograph...