Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fall): "Like a lot of writers, we started out reading Rimbaud and Dostoyevsky, and you think that in order to write you also have to be partly crazy. And later on it occurs to us that we're going to die unless we behave." Realizing that "my streak of self- destructiveness had to end," McGuane quit drinking and poured himself into writing. Two novels -- Nobody's Angel (1982) and Something to Be Desired (1985) -- were followed by To Skin a Cat (1986), a well-received collection of short stories that helped put McGuane back on the literary track...
Last year was the year Harvard wasn't supposed to win it all--and it didn't. Last year was the year Princeton broke the Crimson's six-year, 72-game winning streak. And last year was the year that one of the most successful teams in Harvard sports history finally yielded its champion-ship status to rival Yale...
...Mencken, the iconoclastic journalist who delighted in debunking the "booboisie," is being debunked himself. An abridged version of his diaries will arrive in bookstores this month. In journal entries written between 1930 and 1948, Mencken emerges as a hypochondriac with an anti-Semitic streak. In one passage he noted that a house on his street had been bought by "some Jews . . . with various ratty tenants." In a segment that the editor omitted, Mencken referred to two Baltimore businessmen as "dreadful kikes...
...Crimson (3-4) had its three-game winning streak snapped as it coughed the ball up 18 times in the first half alone and, despite a strong second half, fell to the Blue Devils...
...Harvard women's hockey team has put together a bonafide winning streak...