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Word: skeining (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...loss decisively snaps the Crimson's 8-game win streak, the longest such skein since the miracle year of 45-46 when the Crimson ran 13 in a row and enroute to a 20-3 season...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Cagers Fall at Penn, 73-63, For First Ivy Defeat of Year | 2/14/1981 | See Source »

...Crimson's seventh in a row, a streak which equals the seven-game skein of the 1970-71 season, and ups the team's overall you-gotta-believe 11-4, including a 4-0 Ivy League start...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Mutilate Passive Warriors | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

...victory in today's game--which begins at 2:00 p.m. in the IAB--would match the seven game victory skein of the 1970-71 season. That string is among the longest in Harvard basketball history: even director of intramurals Floyd Wilson, who coached the hoopsters for more than a decade beginning in 1954, can't remember a long streak...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: Hoopsters Setting Sights On Seventh Straight Win; To Meet Div. II Merrimack | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

...basketball team has a streak of its own--six straight wins, the longest since a seven-gamer in 1970-71. That skein is on the line this afternoon, when the hoopsters meet Merrimack at the IAB in a 2 p.m. start. Should the Crimson win, the resulting seven-game streak will tie the longest streak in Harvard history...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Icemen Looking To Win Beanpot | 2/7/1981 | See Source »

...battlefield carnage and destruction, the most conspicuous political casualty of the war may be the cause of Arab unity. The conflict has created a tangled skein of improbable alliances and rivalries. Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the conservative oil sheikdoms of the gulf are aligned with radically socialist Iraq; Libya and Syria, which have predominantly Sunni Muslim populations, have sided with Iran, a non-Arab nation of Shi'ite Muslims. Last week these tensions within the Arab world reached a critical point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSIAN GULF: A Bloody Stalemate | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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