Word: skid
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...finest performance of the year, the Crimson halted a three-game skid by pummelling Cornell, 77-64, before 500 of the faithful at Briggs Athletic Center...
...angry customers. Nebraska farmers have taken to wearing black armbands to protest foreclosures. Bankers have also become the target of a bitter joke making the rounds in the Midwest: "Question: What's the difference between a dead skunk on the road and a dead loan officer? Answer: There are skid marks by the skunk." That kind of talk deeply offends the bankers, who in many cases grew up with and went to school with their customers...
...wasn't that long ago that the Crimson was mired in a 14-game losing streak away from Briggs Cage But on the heels of that skid--which ended last season with a 79-71 victory at Columbia--Harvard has put together a seven-game winning streak on the road...
...Cantabs, who have now lost as many games as they did all last season, suffered similar scoring problems a year ago but rebounded in time to avert such a dramatic skid...
...hardly astonishing. At one point, Galtieri confided that the Russians had insinuated that they might be prepared to have one of their submarines sink the British carrier Invincible with Prince Andrew aboard and let Argentina take credit for the action. I was incredulous, but when imaginations begin to skid out of control, so do events...