Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After scoring his team's only TD last weekend, Rozycki will be trying to extend his scoring streak to ten consecutive games today...
...since he is one of the Crimson's top performers at every distance from 440 yards to five miles. The big-hearted senior joined the team after its opening 22-33 loss to Cornell, and has been a large part of the difference during the varsity's win streak...
...EYES OF THE PROUD, by Mercedes Salisachs (302 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), shows clearly that the umbrous streak in the Spanish character that accounts for the popularity of the corrida has had its effect on the nation's literature. The result is that Spain's fictional heroines suffer at least as much wear and tear as her fighting bulls. When the reader meets pretty, pregnant, unmarried Eulalia trudging toward the Catalan fishing village that cast her out months before, the outcome of Author Salisachs' novel is not hard to predict. Sure enough, 300 pages later the tarnished...
...scrappy Pittsburgh Pirates had won three doubleheaders in five days, the New York Yankees were off on a winning streak that included four straight over the challenging Baltimore Orioles, and both the Pirates and the Yankees were looking forward to a World Series next week that few had dared to predict when the season began...
Scout and her brother live in Maycomb, Alabama, where every family that amounts to anything has a streak-a peculiar streak, or a morbid streak, or one involving a little ladylike tippling at Lydia Pinkham bottles filled with gin. The Finch family streak is a good deal more serious -it is an overpowering disposition toward sanity. This is the flaw that makes Jem interrupt the boasting of a lineage-proud dowager to ask "Is this the Cousin Joshua who was locked up for so long?" And it is what compels Lawyer Atticus Finch, the children's father, to defend...