Word: gallop
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Many horsemen come along merely for the ride or, as a London sportswriter put it, "the colossal bang of a hell-for-leather gallop over good country." Droves of fans pay no admission, trail the hounds on foot, and even in cars and on motorcycles. Of an estimated 200,000 fox-hunting rooters, many are organized into "supporters' associations," such as the 7,000-member club affiliated with the Pytchley Hunt. "They would never have been tolerated before the war," said one hunt master. At a recent meet in Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire counties, some 2,500 cars clogged...
...Greenmen scored twice in the first half--on a 2-yard dive by Bennett in the first quarter, and on a beautiful 75-yard gallop with a screen pass from halfback Bill Donovan...
...half-clad "Roman slave," winds up with two four-horse chariots racing madly around the ring to see who can get to the victim first. The winner has the honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full gallop. The violence of it all would certainly get a thumbs down from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to People, but on the other hand, Festa Italiana is the only show in town that keeps the performers in stitches...
...irrepressibly energetic man whose normal gait is a gallop, Javits has been a Senator for nearly ten years. Thus, though that exalted station might once have seemed impossibly remote for a poor boy born in what Javits fondly describes as "the urban counterpart to a log cabin?a janitor's flat in a tenement," its ambit today seems too confining for his vaulting talents and ambitions. Having never previously stood still in any one place for so long, Javits is pawing the track and sniffing the air in quest of a higher prize?a place on his party...
...fourth, with Harvard in front 2-0, Princeton's Tom Peppler bashed a drive into left that seemed to be destined for Worcester. But Dockery caught the ball at full gallop with his back to the plate, falling as he pulled it in, and Peppler was denied an almost certain home...