Word: skeining
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...