Word: streak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eliot's three-game winning streak was broken yesterday when the Dunster eleven, scoring twice in the third period beat the Elephants, 14 to 12. The Dudley Ramblers meanwhile played the Adams House team to a scoreless tie, in an even, close-fought contest...
Undefeated college football teams will be rare this year. Reason: the Navy's four Pre-Flight Training squads. Last week Iowa's Seahawks, most touted of the Navy fledglings, blasted Minnesota's dream of a third undefeated season. And the man who snipped its winning streak was the man who spun it: silver-thatched, 48-year-old Bernie Bierman, lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Marines...
...chubby, nervous John O'Keefe, who was his private secretary and now holds the reins as vice president of the Daily News. He hears reports, gives orders, rebukes erring staff members. Before he goes to bed at 10:30, he reads the previous day's Red Streak edition, line by line, to make sure his instructions have been carried...
Gene had a "deep streak of piety" and organized the trio's regular evening prayers. What bothered him was whether his mother had been able to collect on his life insurance: she needed the money badly. Gene would think it all over and shake his head. "If mother could see me now!" he would say with amazement. . . . Says Dixon: "She wouldn't have liked the look...
Chief Petty Officer Harold F. Dixon was the leader of the three. His story is an astonishing self-portrait. Dixon has no humble streak in his nature. At 41, "a tough old chief petty officer" with 22 years service behind him, he knew precisely what he meant to do with that raft. "I was determined to sail it if I could. And I maintain that I did sail it. I worked like the devil to sail it, and I resent anyone's saying we 'drifted.' " Nor did he ever doubt who was boss. "Naturally...