Word: swiping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phillies drew two more weapons from their arsenal to swipe the second game, 1-0, behind the sterling relief work of Gene Garber (2.37 ERA) and a tenth-inning single by ex-Dodger Ted Sizemore (.282), who represents the Philly slap-hitting contingent...
...President's men were too pressed for time to have reshaped the budget more dramatically. "All we could do was take a broad swipe at the document," said Bert Lance, director of the Office of Management and Budget...
...embarrassment. The annals of samurai conduct are filled with prodigies of sword wielding: as recently as the Russo-Japanese War of 1905, for instance, a Japanese officer charged a Russian machine gun, so the story goes, and cut clean through its barrel and water jacket with one swipe of his tachi. But the art swords in this show were not meant for such ends. Their unblemished state testifies that they can rarely, if ever, have seen battle. Kept in a Shinto shrine or an armory, polished no more often than a Rembrandt is cleaned, they are among the best-preserved...
...William Gaddis. In his first novel since The Recognitions (1955), the author chronicles the improbable fortunes of an eleven-year-old tycoon and takes a gargantuan swipe at contemporary skyscrapers of Babel...
...saves, Rhodes stymied a break way with a daring maneuver. The versatile athlete roamed out of the crease to the top of the circle, thwarting her onrushing attacker with a clearing swipe...