Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard softball team swept a doubleheader from Mt. Holycke Saturday, and proved that it has the depth and the spunk to win even without strong pitching...
...musher from Teller, Alaska, pressed on with her team of 13 dogs. Out on the ice, almost unable to see, "I kept telling myself how foolish I was being for doing this," recalls Riddles. But fools who rush on can sometimes beat the waiting wise men cold. She swept across the finish line 2 1/2 hours ahead of her nearest rival. What plans does Riddles have for her $50,000 prize? "Maybe Hawaii," said the champion snowbird. "And a box of biscuits for each of the dogs...
...diamond -- located on Soldiers Field--will get plenty of use that first week, with games scheduled against Boston University on Tuesday and M.I.T. on Thursday. Last year, the Crimson swept a doubleheader from the Terriers, 3-2 and 11-2, but lost to M.I.T...
Wallace, wrestling in the 190-lb. weight class swept by Brian McCracken of Illinois with a technical pm at 5:11. His next opponent will be Missouri's Mark Cody, the sixth seed, Wallace was not seeded in the tournament...
...months after West met Paris, he proposed to her. Possibly believing he had reached love's last hurdle, West then revealed the dark secret, unaware that his girl was carrying a transmitter monitored by law-enforcement officers. Moments after Paris left West, ostensibly to buy cigarettes, the police swept in and charged him with the murders. They later arrested another of the victims' daughters, who allegedly had promised to pay her then boyfriend West to commit the crime. But West apparently never got his hands on any money--or on his luscious decoy. "He's ugly," Paris said...