Word: skein
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...unravel this skein of spies and spying, Hagen interviewed many of his prin-cioals-including General Gehlen and Otto John-collecting much personal information never before known. His book brings the story of cold war espionage up to date. But the struggle goes on. No end game is yet in sight. Meanwhile, The Secret War for Europe makes an absorbing spy watcher's guide and rule book for espionage-chess...
...Darrell Abbott and Mickey Gray. Both B.U. coach Jack Kelley and Harvard coach Cooney Weilund feel that tonight's game is even. B.U. has won the final the last four years in a row, and 14,000 fans at the garden will be watching Harvard try to end the skein...
...headline a few days ago heralded an "exaltation of sopranos." No, gentlemen, this is not the game. If we wished to point up the origin of the pates, we might serve up a gaggle (though, more strictly, geese are a gaggle only when on water; they are a skein when in flight, I don't know what they are on a plate, minced). More likely, it would have been wise to invent a term--a mouthwatering of pates when they're good, a sclerosis when they're not. As for sopranos, Lipton suggests a quaver of coluraturas and, behind them...
Riddled by injuries, the Crimson had lost three out of their last four games before yesterday's defeat, which upped Yale's winning skein to five. After enjoying early season success, Harvard found itself overwhelmed by injuries to key players during the second half of the campaign...
...Daily is seeking to break its 95 game losing skein in this annual rivalry between the two newspapers...