Word: streaks
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...first instincts were almost always toward prayer), but she did not know what to pray for. The marbled vestibule seemed to spin around her in a white haze. All around her, the blur of white walls and white pillars and spare mahogany furniture seemed to dissolve into one streak, like a spirit. She sank to the floor, clasping her hands. And as if a voice had spoken to her, she knew with a sudden strength and certainty that the stranger was not good—nay! that he was evil on earth. She knew that he had come...
...though - or perhaps his memory's good. Asked in the debate what it meant to be rich, Clark waffled, while Key sounded genuine talking about not having to live in fear of the next bill. His comments on welfare have stamped him as a compassionate conservative with a pragmatic streak: "I think you judge a country by the way you look after the sick and vulnerable, but also by how many sick and vulnerable people you create, and we have to get that balance right...
...still has a little mileage to get out of its green mankini, especially at home.Prediction: Yale 24, Columbia 20PRINCETON (2-4, 1-2 Ivy) AT CORNELL (3-3, 1-2 Ivy)This is a pretty boring game featuring a pair of mediocre teams, each riding a three-game losing streak. So, in sticking with the Halloween theme, I have made my pick based on which school has the best campus legend featured on its Wikipedia page. My one and only source for term papers mentions Princeton’s “Phantom of Fine Hall…an obscure...
...Harvard comes into the game en route to a possible back-to-back Ivy League Championship, Dartmouth will try to seek its first taste of victory this season. Unless the Big Green increases overall offensive production and stiffens up on defense, it likely will extend the third longest losing streak in Division I-AA to nine games. “So far, as well as can be expected, obviously, we’re frustrated and expectations have not been met, but also realistic in that we’re playing a lot of young players,” Teevens said...
...said that he is confident that a hospital’s competitive streak will spur its efforts to beat “that hospital down the street...