Word: straight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Green Bay Packers defeat the Dallas Cowboys 21-17 for an unprecedented third straight National Football League title...
Harvard coach Bob Harrison, whose team had just won its third straight gannet by topping unbeaten Northeastern, went to the weekly metropolitan basketball coaches luncheon in good spirits Wednesday. When the coaches kidded him about having wrapped up the Boston area basketball title. he shyly admitted, "Well I guess we have...
...north. The shift eliminated summer rains from most of Europe and brought unusually warm and sunny weather. Meanwhile, cool air suddenly began to flow from the Soviet Union toward the Mediterranean. A low-pressure system over Northern Africa created a bowling-alley effect, directing the moisture-laden air mass straight at Tunisia. On the Tunisian-Algerian border, the Atlas Mountains blocked the air and caused the rain to fall. The mountains also set up a swirling air flow in which clouds gathered up new water...
...GANG THAT COULDN'T SHOOT STRAIGHT by Jimmy Breslin. 249 pages. Viking...
...went straight to the hot springs on the north side of a little ravine which cut through the commune. As we were crossing the ravine, Yana asked me if I wanted some of the gum she was chewing. I said yes and she parted her lips and put the gum between her front teeth. Thinking she meant for me to bite off the piece that showed in front of her teeth, I went over...