Word: behind
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Because of her courageous comeback, Greene hurdled from eighth place to third, finishing only 10 points behind Lofgren's winning total...
...against Yale this year. The Elis were down by five or six goals. The crowd: "Hey, Yale, you should be used to coming from behind...
...regular downhill's two fierce initial bends, and two runs of an easier version of the slalom, a fast-turning dash through flagged gates. On the first slalom run Zurbriggen, an all-event virtuoso in whom there is a fine gate skier crying for practice time, tied for sixth behind several slalom slitherers. He led the combined on points. Then, needing only a safe second run to win, he charged too hard, hooked a gate and fell within sight of the finish...
...with him. He declined to blame the weather. "Sure it was windy, but it had no effect on my racing." Or the course. "It was an easy slope, not too hard for me. I was going so fast, and you never know on slalom." Soon the rare mistake was behind him, and he was talking of his admiration for the great Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark, against whom he expects to race in the slalom and giant slalom this week. From Stenmark, he said, "I learned that when you want to make power, you must be quiet. Then you explode...
...Super Tuesday came last week, as ABC's Olympics coverage vied with the unfolding story from New Hampshire. NBC and CBS each weighed in with an hour-long election special (NBC's in prime time), and CBS's 48 Hours devoted its entire hour to a behind-the-scenes look at New Hampshire campaigning. ABC, locked into Olympics coverage for most of the evening, squeezed in reports from Anchorman Peter Jennings before a half- hour wrap-up at midnight Eastern standard time. ABC's last-of-the-evening program was, bravely, the first of the political season to shun...