Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from Medalle's forfeit the team swept every match in the first most against Western New England until 190 lb. Kevin Wattles lost 5-4 in the heavyweight class to "a big 260 pounder," Lee said...
...funny thing is that in thepast, Harvard's been the team to get teary-eyed on its annual trek to Princeton and Penn. The Crimson has never swept the Tigers and Quakers on the road, and over the past 15 years the Crimson's away record against...
...first time gives a limited voice in the central government to the country's 2.8 million people of mixed race and 850,000 Indians. The 4.7 million whites still have the final say on all important matters and, of course, blacks remain totally unrepresented. Riots later swept the economically depressed black townships to the south and east of Johannesburg. Then came a Transvaal labor stoppage: 800,000 black workers took part; 6,000 of them were fired. In the past 14 weeks, as a result of the unrest, 163 people have been killed and hundreds injured, most by security...
Late last week, however, voters decided to replace their founding father. Price's People's United Party was swept out of office in favor of the United Democratic Party, which won 55% of the popular vote and 21 of the 28 seats in Parliament. U.D.P. Leader Manuel Esquivel, 44, the new Prime Minister, said he will "pursue good relations with the United States" and work for settlement of a territorial dispute with neighboring Guatemala, but his policies are not expected to differ much from those of his predecessor. So lopsided was the vote that Price lost...
...first things swept aside are the conventions of TV drama. There is no 21-gun pageantry here, no coffee-table scenery. Most of the characters, and there are more than 100, keep their secrets to themselves. When, after 14 episodes, all the subplots converge, none of them ends up resolved. Nonetheless, The Jewel in the Crown, which comes to the U.S. after conquering viewers and reviewers throughout Britain, delivers a sovereign account of the decline and fall of the British Empire. Slowly, painstakingly tracking its protagonists through a labyrinth of troubles, the show builds up a panoramic portrait of British...