Word: streakings
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...level off, drop its tail, hit the sea. Just before it crashed he heard Paddy's voice on the radio: "This is it, chaps." The ship sank like a stone. At 5,000 feet Aikman circled, watching the spot where it had sunk. All he saw was a streak of oil floating on the water...
Prior to this encounter the soldiers had been riding along on the crest of a seven-game winning streak which was rudely interrupted by Phil Weeks sixth inning three-run homer. Tom Axon was the winning pitcher. Leverett also took the nightcap...
Liquid Legs. As silk stockings evaporate from the nation's store counters, cosmeticians are rushing in to challenge rayon. Liquid stockings are on the way. Last week in New York, one salon opened a "Leg-Bar"; showed waterproof, streak-proof, runproof, cosmetic stockings in giant lipstick form (called "leg-sticks"), in spray guns, in cakes, in bottles. Seams are applied with an eyebrow-pencil. To many women the whole thing sounded messy...
...proceedings. For example, when a pinster triumphs and wins free games, "fees," spectators race about in a mystic trance shouting "Pinball," a call as rousing to Bow Street as Rheinhardt is to the Yard. But bewailing bad luck takes up much more space in the pinball dictionary. A streak of poor playing is described as "Gottlieb working overtime" or "Harry having his foot on the pedal." Even baseball contributed two terms: the "Merkle ball" which slides straight down with only one more bumper to light, and the "Owen ball" which the pinster cannot control. A "New man ball...
...outs, clean-up hitter Ned Fitzgibbons waited for two strikes. Finally picking a choice pitch, he clouted the day's most powerful hit, a full-size home run to center, tying up the ball game. Bill Barnes, after an umpire-Cornell coach dispute, gave promise of keeping the streak rolling. Callanan reached first on an error but was caught off the bag in an attempted double steal, ending the threat...