Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pompous a prig as ever rode a Rolls to work and pride to a fall. But the only tumble Miss Tracy gives him is into the downy bed of Gerda Trauenegg, a well-tuned opera singer from Vienna. Catching him with his wig down, Gerda momentarily taps a streak of puritanical lechery...
...same N.C.A.A. round, U.C.L.A. whipped Houston by a score of 73-58 and went on to win the championship. Then, last January, Houston turned the tables with a startling 71-69 midseason upset that knocked the Bruins from the No. 1 ranking and smashed their 47-game winning streak. Now it was Houston with its own 32-game winning streak on the line, and U.C.L.A. was the one thirsting for revenge...
...course everyone did-and not, perhaps, simply about the unsuccessful love affair. For Pavese's complex character has left friends and critics guessing ever since. These novels prompt the suspicion that he suffered from a sense of personal inadequacy compounded by postwar disillusionment. He had a Hamlet streak in him too wide to live with...
...attack gells over spring vacation, and if the Crimson finally gets into top shape, Harvard could see the four-game winning streak that the laxmen compiled at the end of last year grow into the Ivy League Lacrosse championships...
...Seasons. The quiz afforded ample evidence that there is a broad and hitherto little-appreciated streak of steel in the man, just as his showing in New Hampshire called to mind the usually overlooked fact that in 20 years of electoral politics he has not yet lost a race. All of his previous contests, however, have been waged in his native Minnesota...