Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, here we are in the Los Angeles Dodgers' clubhouse, where teammates are congratulating Don Drysdale, who tonight has made baseball history by pitching his sixth straight shutout, a 5-0 masterpiece against the Pittsburgh Pirates, which now has run Don's streak of scoreless innings to 54, breaking Carl Hubbell's National League record of 46⅓ shutout frames and putting the Hollywood-handsome hurler just two scoreboard zeroes shy of the alltime major-league mark held by Walter Johnson, the "Big Train" himself. Don, tell us, how does it feel...
...Pittsburgh's International Exhibition, his prize painting consisted of two painted blobs of blue, divided by a yellow arc. In late 1963, he took to spreading paint over an entire canvas with a roller, subsequently progressed to sprays and to bounding his spray paintings with a painted streak. Lately he has been going back to his earlier canvases and changing them or adding that all-important final boundary of paint...
...photo jets streak over North Viet Nam and Laos, filming huge patches- and tiny pockets- of jungled land, searching for the scantest signs of activity by Communist forces. Finding the infiltrating enemy has been a lot easier of late. "We are spotting convoys of more than 100 vehicles in Laos and the lower panhandle now," says one U.S. reconnaissance pilot. "It used to be that 10 to 15 trucks were a big catch." Now nearly every photo foray turns up new roads and fuel depots, fresh truck parks and antiaircraft gun sites...
Today, they follow the varsity to Dartmouth to take on the baby green, and their winning streak should not be challenged...
...Crimson golfers broke a four year Penn State winning streak Saturday when they fought back from a 15-stroke deficit midway through the 36-hole tournament at Princeton to snatch the team trophy from the favorites...