Word: gallop
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Harvard ran its six-point intermission edge to 20-8 off the second half kickoff. Connors's 48-yard gallop highlighting an 80-yard drive that culminated in Miller's second quarterback sneak TD. But the lanky playmaker's run for the extra deuce tell short, and would turn out to be costly in a surprisingly well played (considering the monsoon conditions) affair...
...there, scrambling out of the Winnebago and hitting the ground in full gallop, is the candidate himself. So fast does he move that he is inside the store before the storekeeper can stir, blinking in the dimness and striding toward the storekeeper with his hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
...June 11, the majestic chestnut thoroughbred Seattle Slew may gallop to fame on the brown dirt of Belmont, as he attempts to become the first undefeated Triple Crown winner in racing history. Standing 16 1/2 hands from hoof to mane, Slew is a rarity among race horses in that he never has to be whipped...
...crease of space between the huge, straining bodies sprawled before him, he dashes through it, shaking off grasping hands. A linebacker collides with him, but O.J. simply caroms away. He shifts and feints, carving first one angle, then another on the open field. O.J. is now in a full gallop, and he has lost few foot races in the eight years of his National Football League career...
...classic The Mind of the South, W.J. Cash considered the new skyscrapers and pondered: "Softly, do you not hear behind that the gallop of Jeb Stuart's cavalrymen?" At times the hoofbeats of a defeated army are still audible, even on the courthouse squares, even in the halls of Congress, even in the cadences of Jimmy Carter...