Word: swept
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sophomore Kevin McCarthy swept his three sabre bouts, while three other Harvard fencers dropped their matches in the last round, turning what might have been a rousing win overall into a dangerously close...
Caieb Cneesnante-aumuck in 1665, and Benjamin Larnell in 1716 were the only two who survived the rigors of University life and the diseases that swept the Harvard campus during the time, the Sunday Herald reported in 1908. Even the two graduates died of consumption shortly after graduation, and Harvard did not make further efforts to cultivate the Indian community...
ALTHOUGH drought is obviously an inexorable feature of the African climate, its effects are becoming increasingly devastating because of the deepening poverty, swelling population and land depletion that has swept the continent...
...Harvard women's swimming team yesterday swept to a 76-38 victory over Villanova in only its second meet of the year, boosting its record...
Once again the familiar tremors swept through Nicaragua. In the streets of Managua, the capital, dozens of Soviet-made T-55 tanks clattered into defensive positions. Antiaircraft crews manned their batteries, while zealous neighborhood defense committees scurried to dig air-raid trenches. Some 20,000 volunteer coffee pickers were reassigned to local militia units as the Sandinista government announced a "state of alert" affecting the country's 100,000-member military and security forces. For the third time in two years, the Sandinistas were loudly convinced-or so they said-that U.S. troops were about to invade their soil...