Word: stringing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bright side, the Crimson's magnificent string of 29 straight games at home without a loss might pull Harvard through and insure another...
During twelve years of civil war, foreign correspondents came to rely on the Commodore Hotel in West Beirut as a respite from the turmoil around them. Feuding militia leaders held press conferences there, and a string of hopeful peace envoys were among its guests. The Commodore's lively bar was renowned throughout the Middle East as a meeting place for those passing through Beirut. It was also the home of a parrot whose uncannily accurate imitation of an incoming artillery shell fooled more than a few newly arrived reporters. While cross fire occasionally damaged the aging seven-story edifice...
Lang opened a string of six unanswered Crimson
...first cases of AIDS arose among African prostitutes in the late 1970s, at about the same time it first appeared among Americans and Haitians. The disease has now spread to some 30 African countries, mostly in the so-called AIDS belt -- the string of central and east African countries that include Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Zaire and Zambia. Medical researchers caution that most AIDS studies done so far in Africa are spotty and preliminary. But none doubt that AIDS is both widespread and running out of control...
...plot, such as it is, is utterly inconsequential, only an excuse to string 25 songs together in some kind of context. We swing through the Club High-Life to the Club Au-Revoir by way of "A Chic Club in Paris," all of which are represented by a few tables and chairs set up in front of the lacquered stage of the Next Move Theater. We have the again chantuese "who during the Eisenhower Administration never once saw daylight," the young star, the happy go lucky group of kids who are down on their luck but gotta lot of heart...