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Word: skeining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Within months of taking office, he re-established diplomatic ties with China, while preserving Japan's lucrative economic ties with Taiwan. But Tanaka's popularity caught up with him in 1974, when a Japanese magazine exposed the fact that he had used a skein of dummy corporations and false tax statements to conceal his shadowy ways of making money. Amid the public uproar that ensued, Tanaka felt compelled to resign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan: Tanaka-San's Decline and Rise | 8/1/1983 | See Source »

Although LaSalle is already making substantial preparations for its February 18 confrontation with the Crimson in Philadelphia and Penn State itching for a chance to break the Harvard winning skein, neither team poses the caliber of competition Bernal wants, But they are start...

Author: By L. JOSEPH Garcia, | Title: New Faces, New Places | 1/28/1983 | See Source »

...NOTEBOOK: The team traveled to forward Cindy Clapp's house for dinner after the game. Clapp is a junior transfer student form UMass...C.W. Post and Holy Cross invade Briggs Athletic Center this weekend as Harvard tries to break its winless skein...

Author: By Carla D. Williams, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Cagers Suffer Third Straight Setback | 12/8/1982 | See Source »

...team, the wrestlers "accomplished everything that we could have set out to do." said Lee, reflecting on some of the brighter moments of his outstanding season. The team beat Princeton for the first time in Lee's tenure as a coach, snapping a 14-year loss skein...

Author: By G. ROBERT Strauss, | Title: Wrestlers Ready to Prove Their Mettle | 3/19/1982 | See Source »

...last time the Harvard hockey team met up with Clarkson, the Crimson was mired in the middle of an eight-game winless skein--from mid December into February--which included four straight ECAC losses. One of the latter contests was against the Golden Knights, an 8-1, give-'em-the-puck-and-they-put-it-in-don't-they" loss in Potsdam...

Author: By Michael Bass, | Title: Icemen in Semifinals Tonight | 3/12/1982 | See Source »

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