Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Columbia safety Terry Elliot jumped on the ball. An official signaled in Columbia's direction and the Lions jumped up and down on the sideline. The streak was over--or so they thought...
...after a minute-long conference, referee Charley Cloe signaled that Brown had recovered. With 47 seconds left in the game, Clark ran for a nine-yard touchdown on the next play and gave Brown a 19-16 victory, extending Columbia's Division I-record losing streak to 41 games...
After some adolescent wandering and college (William and Mary), Close moved to New York City and began acting with the Phoenix Theater Company. There she became fast friends with Actress Mary Beth Hurt, who recalls that Close's patrician reserve hid a "wild and playful" streak. Close's break was in the Broadway production of Barnum, which led to her being cast in Garp. One day she shocked the cast and crew after the production bogged down over a delicate nude scene in the boys' locker room. She suddenly stripped off her character's nurse uniform and streaked the cast...
...commentary on the problems of leadership in America in the late 20th century. John Kennedy: assassinated. Lyndon Johnson: driven from office. Richard Nixon: forced to resign. Gerald Ford: an unelected President, rejected at the polls. Jimmy Carter: buried in a landslide. Commentators began to wonder whether Americans had a streak of the regicide in them. Going into Reagan's fifth year, however, Americans began to think he would be the first President since Eisenhower to leave Washington after two terms with a smile on his face...
...were hurt in the latter part of the season by injuries to Jane [Grim] and Katie [McEnaney]," Lamborghini said, making it clear that this was no reason for the Crimson's four-game losing streak. "But this is not an excuse, it's a fact...