Word: swept
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Plus, the Cardinals have the advantage of going home, where they had the second-best record in baseball this season and where they swept the Dodgers in the playoffs after losing the first two games in Los Angels...
Following the trend established at the New England Championships two weeks ago, the Crimson's strength came in the doubles draw, where Harvard swept the three division...
With the victory, the Cardinals swept the three games in their home park and took a 3-2 lead as the best-of-seven series moves back to Los Angeles...
...would resign both as Quebec's premier and leader of the ruling Parti Quebecois, provincial Justice Minister Pierre-Marc Johnson, 39, has been the front runner to succeed him. Last week, in a provincewide party election, Johnson won 60% of the vote and the helm of the party that swept to power in 1976 on a surge of sentiment for separating Quebec from the rest of Canada. He ascends to the provincial premiership that his father Daniel held from 1966 until his death...
Though some legislators today might be reluctant to make such a promise, no one in Congress is seriously proposing anything as drastic as Smoot-Hawley. Still, the pro-tariff mania that swept Washington 55 years ago remains a danger. "What we are afraid of," says S. Bruce Smart, Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, "is that people are so emotional that they will do something that they know is foolish, just to do something...