Word: haras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Himself. In an instant, he turned on an incredible finishing kick. "Go! Go! Go!" screamed the fans as O'Hara raced off to battle the clock...
...Rabbits. "I had no idea of going for the record," O'Hara admitted afterward-and hardly anybody in Madison Square Garden suspected what was about to happen when he toed the start. Assaults on the mile record are fashioned like Marine landings: every step is plotted in advance and rehearsed for days, even weeks. Many are out-and-out team efforts, in which two or three fleet-footed (temporarily) "rabbits" are used to ensure a fast pace for the star. But O'Hara is a one-man team, and the N.Y.A.C. field was so-so at best. Nobody...
...full quarter-mile, O'Hara trailed the field-arms flapping, head wagging, hands plucking at his track togs (somebody said later) "like a shy man with broken suspenders." The steak-and-potatoes gave him a few twinges, but by the half-mile mark, he had his mind on other things. He stepped up his pace, was running second, just a stride behind John Camien of Kansas State Teachers College. Just before the three-quarter-mile mark, he slipped past Camien, and the announcer called out the time...
...When I heard that," said O'Hara, "I knew I had a shot at the record...
...Gordie Howe. But of all the sundry forms of midwinter madness, nothing quite matches that of the iceboater. He may spend the summer sprawling in the cockpit of a Star or Lightning, watching the waves lap gently against his hull, sniffing the sea breeze, and reading John O'Hara. But just let the water turn to ice. Out come the brandy, the long Johns, the parka and the racing goggles-and, lordy, watch his smoke...