Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Darkness swept the IAB for 10 minutes before Harvard Coach Ihsan Gurdal and several players succeeded in turning the lights back...
...Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), by far the largest contra group, has between 8,000 and 9,000 soldiers, up from 6,000 last year. Operating from enclaves in Honduras and bases in northern Nicaragua, they have swept as far south as the city of Matagalpa, about 60 miles north of Managua. New F.D.N. recruits must rely on rusty, World War I-vintage Mauser bolt-action rifles, given by the CIA in 1982. Though weapons and ammunition have been in woefully short supply, the stockpile is growing again. According to high- level F.D.N. sources, the contras possess an unspecified number...
...veritable rattlesnake in the woodpile. To his fans, though, he is a modern David, a champion of the little guy who takes on the Goliaths of Big Oil and more often than not gives them a costly whupping. Whichever image he evokes, T. (for Thomas) Boone Pickens, 56, has swept up like a twister out of Amarillo, Texas, to become one of the most famous and controversial businessmen in the U.S. today...
...cagers got swept by the southern foes on the road last weekend, thereby eliminating any chance of challenging the Ivy elite this year...
That's because the weekend sweep by the clubs Harvard had swept on the road five weeks earlier left the Crimson two-and-a-half games behind liague-leading Penn (8-1 Ivy) and left the Crimson's dreams of a first-ever Ivy crown and a second-ever NCAA tournament berth all but decked by a one-two punch...