Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...finish the Crimson nosed out Yale by a decklength for a first place clocking of 6:30.3. The Bulldogs followed in 6:31, with Princeton taking third...
...varsity needed a higher stroke for the race than it has used previously this season. Opening with a furious sprint of 44, the lights settled to a 34 for the body of the mile and five-sixteenths course, and rose to a 43 pace across the finish line...
...learned from recent events. Whenever American prestige is to be committed on a major scale, we must be willing to commit enough power to obtain our objective even if all of our intelligence estimates prove wrong. Putting it bluntly, we should not start things unless we are prepared to finish them...
Finally, Sellers took matters into his own hands. "I shook the stick at him," he said, "and he started to run." Veering to the outside, Carry Back flashed past the exhausted Globemaster and pulled even with Crozier. Again Sellers waved his whip; again Carry Back responded. At the finish, the brown colt was in front by almost a length. Carry Back had earned another $120,500, and crewcut Jockey Sellers-at 23, the nation's leading jockey (TIME, March 24)-had won his first Kentucky Derby. "All I had to do," said Sellers modestly, "was ask that horse...
...usual, the varsity will count on workhorse Tom Blodgett to pad its total. Blodgett could win the high hurdles in the absence of Luck. He could also finish second in the broad jump and third in the low hurdles...