Word: finisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democrats. Kennedy got 42% of the vote; Governor Roger Branigin, who adopted a favorite-son stance as Humphrey's not-so-secret ally, received 31%; McCarthy polled 27%. While Kennedy failed both to roll up a ma jority and to demolish McCarthy, the timing of his first-place finish and his surprisingly broad base of support gave the New Yorker's campaign a solid, if less than meteoric, boost...
...betting purposes only, the original order of finish was allowed to stand, because win bets on Dancer's Image had already been paid...
...horse who fancies himself a Kentucky Derby contender should stay out of my sight. I am the kiss of death. Last year I had two pre-Derby sure things. One, Dr. Isby, came in from California with the best jockey in Derby history, finished eleventh, and has not been heard from since. The other, Reason to Hail, managed a fourth-place finish, struggled nobly through the other Triple Crown events, and died prematurely before his fourth birthday...
Army's most recent theft occurred in last week's outdoors Heptagonals in New Haven, when the West Point tracksters edged Harvard out of a second place finish by a mere three points. Yale surprised everyone by winning the Heps with 71 points. Army was second with 70, while Harvard took a disappointing third with...
Unable to catch Winthrop, Kirkland resorted to power tens, but could only gain two seats. Thirty strokes from the finish Puritan cox Skip Grossman called a power ten and Winthrop crossed the line at 40 strokes per minute. The triumphant boat was clocked at 4:30.5 for the three-quarter mile course...