Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss Dorothy Parker symbolized. Things are now laughed about that she would have found vulgar, if not downright indiscreet. Humor today is broad and black. Perhaps it is more human; it is certainly less artificial. Yet the suspicion mounts that behind the laughter of "alienation," there is a wide streak of sentimentality, too, just as there was behind the "cynicism" of Dorothy Parker...
...Minh and the men who rule North Viet Nam with him are getting less sleep these nights. U.S. planes have not only bombed Hanoi and vicinity several times recently by day and night, but regularly streak overhead on the way to other targets, forcing the Communist leaders to take shelter like the rest of the citizenry. Just as sleep-killing as the dramatic raids over and around Hanoi and the port of Haiphong, however, is the steady stream of information that flows into Hanoi about the more routine daily destruction wreaked by U.S. planes on practically anything that moves...
There is so much live greenery inside the hotel's courtyard that it looks like the Hanging Gardens of Babylon -and it takes two gardeners a full week to water it all. Five bubble-shaped, glass-enclosed elevators streak up and down a huge column at one side of the courtyard; they are programmed, says Portman, to create "kinetic architecture." Water from a 70-ft. fountain cascades down along strips of clear plastic...
Army snapped the Harvard track team's outdoor dual meet streak at 18 Saturday in what proved to be a crowd-pleasing season finale at Soldiers Field. The Crimson squad turned in some top performances and individual standouts in junior Steve Schoonover and freshman Keith Colburn, but the Cadets took the team honors...
Harvard's lacrosse team fought off strong winds and a four-game losing streak to run Williams to the ground in an 11-6 victory yesterday at Cumnock Field...