Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...special quality of Richard is not his glacial cruelty or that he has some half a dozen people butchered to achieve the crown but that his mere presence instills fear in all, generates a nervous electric tension with every crooked step. Even his broad streak of sardonic humor (said to be shared by Stalin) is chilling...
...there was more. Three national men's squash titles, fourth place at the NCAA women's cross country meet, the most points ever scored by Harvard in the Yale football game (The Game, that is), the preservation of the NCAA's longest current Division I swimming dual meet winning streak. Twelve Ivy League championships in all (nine men's and three women's), four more than Princeton copped in its 1976-77 season (the best year an Ivy school had enjoyed before). And with these titles, a list of individual accomplishments you could stretch from Cambridge to New Haven...
...summer you shouldn't be reading anything more ambitious than the latest Judith Krantz But if you are enrolled to take classes while any reasonable human being is discovering the untold joys of a cold gin and tonic after a game of tennis, then your perverse intellectual streak (authentic of otherwise) will probably drive you into Cambridge's many bookstores. If so, you will not be disappointed because browsing is a local specialty and Square bookshops cater to the avid reader with welcoming stacks and close to round the clock hours...
...Near left) DAN WATSON plunges waterward in one of the dives that earned him third place in NCAA one-meter competition. The men's swimming team extended its NCAA-leading Division I dual-meet winning streak to 32 meets...
...when President Bok wrote Walson in early February, he hoped to snap a two-year streak of turndowns. The Walesa invitation was initiated, as it is with each Commencement speaker, by a trio of administrators: Aloian, Fred L. Glimp '50, vice president for alumni affairs and development; and the acting president of the Harvard Alumni Association--a post held this year by Dunbar Carpenter...