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Word: straights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destination on the moon's rugged surface and reach it as reliably as a taxicab finds a street address in Manhattan. Directly ahead of Intrepid lay the five craters that form the familiar pattern of "Snowman." Guided unerringly by the spacecraft computer. Astronauts Conrad and Alan Bean headed straight toward the target picked months earlier in Houston: Surveyor Crater, which forms Snowman's torso and is the spot where 21 years ago the unmanned Surveyor 3 landed on the moon. Conrad could scarcely believe his eyes. "Son of a gun!" he said. "Right down the middle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: BULL'S-EYE FOR THE INTREPID TRAVELERS | 11/28/1969 | See Source »

...back from the sidewalk, it destroys the street front which is crucial to Back Bay. The escalators which presumably lead into it are no substitute for store fronts and other visual and physical openings. Also, the whole development is on such a huge scale, with those long blocks of straight concrete that it really has nothing to do with Back Bay or Boston...

Author: By Deborah R. Waroff, | Title: Back Bay The City as Art | 11/25/1969 | See Source »

...Crimson finished its regular season schedule on Friday against Yale with a 3-0 trouncing of the Bulldogs. The victory was Harvard's twelfth straight and completed the first undefeated, untied season in the 64-year history of soccer at Harvard...

Author: By Robert W. Gerlach, | Title: Varsity Booters to Play Brown In NCAA District Championship | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

Quarterback Rod Foster rolled around right and for 30 yards and the final Crimson touchdown. The Yardlings finish the season with two straight wins for their third consecutive 3-3 season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Gridders Down Elis, 31-18, Without Meal | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

Arriving late at DeWitt Cuyler Field, the Crimson was assessed a five yard penalty for delay of the game before the game even started. Once play began, the two teams battled evenly for three quarters, then Harvard sewed up its second straight win over Yale with a 19-point fourth quarter explosion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Gridders Down Elis, 31-18, Without Meal | 11/22/1969 | See Source »

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