Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...icewomen cut through the February morass and lit up Bright Hockey Center for the Beanpot Championship. Harvard bounced into the finals against Northeastern and its five game Harvard winning streak with a 3-2 victory over Boston College...
...February 10th, Harvard lost its seventhstraight meeting to Brown, dropping a 65-57decision to the Bears. However, the team bouncedback from the loss by embarking on a seven gamewinning streak...
...Minchin (Eleanor Bron) spares no expense to put Sara at ease, knowing she'll reap the rewards from Sara's rich father. But when Captain Crewe is reported missing in action and his property is confiscated by the British government, Miss Minchin morphs into Cruella DeVille, complete with a streak of white in her hair. She forces Sara to become a household drudge to work off the expenses she has incurred...
Stop talking about the strike. Start talking about the Streak (Cal Ripken's Streak, that is). Market the players; stop fighting them...
...with clenched fists hanging out of his shirtsleeves, is the central figure of his own tumultuous life, not of some historical tableau. The author's use of language is a fresh breeze on a hot day. Shea's windbag of a father-in-law is a "self-important old streak of misery." And when Shea's sister-in-law is asked whether she loves a certain scamp and charmer, she replies, "What an idiot question! I could put the darling little fellow in my pocket and walk the earth's highways with...