Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princeton contest has even more even value for some players, who are in the running for a bid to the Nationals at UCLA next month. With string victories in the next two matches, Fish said, Scott and Bill Stanley may be candidates for national bids in singles play...
...restrictions would break a string of successes in expanding and revitalizing the CIA that Casey's bitterest critics admit has been highly impressive. During the 1970s, revulsion over some of the agency's early operations prompted cuts of 40% in the agency's budget and 50% in its staff. At the end of the Carter Administration, policymakers were receiving intelligence estimates at the lethargic rate of one a month...
Unlike her previous books, which tend to degenerate into a string of unrelated, if interesting, incidents, Tuchman binds the four examples together with common factors. Starting with the original Laocoon, a citizen of Troy who felt that various natural phenomena promised doom, Tuchman goes on to find modern-day Laocoons. John Kenneth Galbraith, Arthur Schlesinger Sr. and McGeorge Bundy. Moreover, each instance of folly described by Tuchman builds on the one before it: modern leaders repeat--and expand--the mistakes of their predecessors...
Those assessments may be too sweeping in a year in which voter sentiment has seemed so volatile. Still, it was the Hart team that faced by far the greater need for a halftime readjustment of its game plan. Pennsylvania culminated a string of Hart defeats in the populous industrial Northern states from Illinois to New York that Democrats will need to upset Ronald Reagan in November...
...further omission is anything by Anthony Burgess, though the author coyly hints that one of his 27 novels might round off the list nicely. If so, Dark Lady is not the one. The book is too casual and sketchy, with a string of improbable, scurrilously farcical episodes serving for a plot. It measures up to only one of the criteria that Burgess applies in 99 Novels: the novelists' capacity to create "human beings whom we accept as living creatures...