Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's ice hockey team, the 1997-98 season marked the end of the rebuilding process. The previous condition to which the Crimson hopes to return is the form it held over a stretch from 1987 to 1991, in which Harvard captured the regular-season Ivy League title or the Ivy Tournament title every season...
Refusing to allow this rough stretch to bring the team down, however, the Crimson showed much heart in recovering to end the season. Harvard proceeded to defeat Notre Dame, Columbia, New Hampshire and Cornell to end the season red-hot. Unfortunately for the Crimson, the midseason slump proved to be its undoing, as it was denied an invitation to the ECAC tournament...
Despite the disappointment of the season, Harvard showed promise down the stretch. Although it will lose its senior tri-captains--MacNaughton, Gudeman, and Rogers--the Crimson returns an impressive team...
With the loss to the Elis fresh in its memory, the Crimson embarked on a three-game stretch versus top-15 opponents in a five-day span that would test the team's true abilities. Harvard followed a respectable 1-1 tie with then-No. 11 George Mason by convincingly defeating the No. 14 Maryland Terrapins...
...amendment, sponsored by Oklahoma Republican Ernest Istook, proposed to stretch freedom of religion far beyond the after-school clubs and private prayer already allowed under federal guidelines. It insisted that "the people's right to pray and to recognize their religious beliefs, heritage or traditions on public property, including schools, shall not be infringed." Worried opponents -- including plenty of religious organizations -- envision a turf war between faiths being fought on school grounds. In Istook's version of the future, they say, the most urgent religious freedom may be freedom from religion, not freedom...