Word: abreast
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...containing two men and a blonde woman. Recognizing that as Nelson's number they gave hot chase. The proprietress of a filling station saw the two automobiles come roaring down the highway at 70-odd m. p. h., each one spitting bullets. Near the filling station, the agents pulled abreast of the fleeing outlaws. Tires shrieked as the Ford swerved into a side road. The Federal car screeched and skidded about 100 ft. down the highway before Agent Hollis could bring it to a stop. By that time Nelson's woman had leaped out into a ditch. Screened by their...
...President Roosevelt believes prices must be tilted higher before they are stabilized but he is determined that wages keep abreast with the increased cost of living, it was said today...
Almost exactly abreast as they spun into the turn after the first length of the pool, Olive McKean and Lenore Kight started back through the ruffled water for the final dash. As if a private current favored her, Miss McKean drew smoothly ahead in the last 25 meters, touched the wall a full three yards ahead. Later in the same afternoon, swimming with a precise cadence of 51 strokes per lap for 32 laps, Miss Kight consoled herself by winning the mile swim...
...band of men who were not there to worship God and His Son to be born on the morrow. Brilliant in churchly regalia, a solemn procession moved up the aisle toward the candle-decked altar. When Archbishop Leon Tourian, tall, grey-bearded primate of his Church in America, drew abreast of them, the men did what they had come for. A double-edged butcher knife flashed once, vanished in the Archbishop's abdomen. (TIME...
Bonthron's head suddenly began to bob more quickly. In 30 yd. around the last turn, he gained 7 yd. Down the home stretch he made up the distance more slowly, a yard at a time. Twenty yards from the tape, the two men were abreast. Ten yards farther on, Bonthron was almost 2 ft. ahead. He turned his head to look at Cunningham, then broke the tape with a world's record...