Word: streaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mateos' conservative streak showed through, too, in his tough dealings with labor, notably in crushing a railroad strike and jailing the leaders for indefinite terms. More surprising, LÓpez Mateos has shed the suspicious isolationism traditional to Mexican Presidents. After a friendly trip to the U.S. and Canada, he is seriously considering a U.S. request for a tracking station, as a part of Project Mercury, on Mexico's west coast. Soon he will visit Venezuela and Brazil, and he is thinking of a later visit to Moscow and other European capitals...
Late in the final period, Williams caught the varsity and tied the count at 63 to 63. But Borchard contributed his remarkable streak of scoring, and the Crimson hung on for the triumph...
This year is different, say some team members. The varsity has last season's great freshman team, which ended Yale's 66-meet winning streak. Yale has lost aces Tim Jecko and Roger Anderson, and several underclassmen. The Crimson wants to win badly, and all its dreams center on Payne Whitney Pool next March...
...dislike for liquor (two beers make him woozy), and a quiet determination to get to bed around 10 every night. But the game has left more of a mark on him than the slightly twisted nose in his handsome, square-jawed face. Sometimes he worries that the mean streak he works up for his profession of violence will affect him permanently. "You've got to watch that you don't take it off the field with you," says Sam. "You get guys who say, 'Oh, you're a big football player. Well...
...Navy during the war, Florsheim discovered in himself an unexpected streak of scientific acumen, developed a radar plane-spotting technique that is still considered basic. But at war's end Florsheim still found himself as far as ever from solving the problems in his art. He buckled down to a back-breaking work schedule in his Chicago studio and exhibited only on occasion...