Word: flatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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About 500 yards before the finish, the otherwise flat course gradually slants downwards for 300 yards until it steepens precipitously for a 30-yard stretch which separate the boys from the mountain goats...
Though the meet's outcome would have changed with either of the missing runners, Hunt felt his team would have won anyway. "I expected them to bounce back," he said, referring to Saturday's loss to the University of New Hampshire, "but we didn't. We ran flat...
Despite an ankle injury that kept key runner Paula Newham out of the race, the women, now 2-0, managed to take six out of the first eight places on a relatively flat course...
...John played out what may have been his final minutes as Harvard's varsity quarterback, the Crimson had trouble mustering an attack. Both teams were flat, and UMass carried its 3-0 lead through half of the second quarter...
...sheer ambition is essential to success, plus the kind of skill that grows from aptitude and experience. "There's quite a few guys working their butts off and not making any money," says Burns. The alternative to working on a contract team is to hire out at a flat $7.50 an hour in support jobs like motorman or cage operator. Adds Burns: "If you're going to mine gold, you might as well make money at it." Aberle agrees. But as they call it a day after 7½ hrs. underground and start on the regular...