Word: lag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time, including the woman on TIME'S cover, Peggy Kokernot, 25, a Houston physical education teacher and marathon runner. Along with other women athletes, she had been called on to make up for lost time when the symbolic, 2,612-mile torch relay that preceded the conference began to lag so far behind schedule there was fear the convention would outpace its torch. She was then placed in the group that ran the bronze torch into the opening session, and her own ambition says much about why there was a women's convention at all. She wants a woman...
...from London, five minutes longer from Paris, which is nearly three hours faster than subsonic travel. The fare is 20% higher than regular first class-and apparently well worth it to globetrotting business executives. The Concorde also does much to ease that bane of long-distance air travel, jet lag. Besides, said one investment banker: "We can leave London at 11:15 a.m., arrive in New York at 10 a.m. and be at work in Manhattan the same morning...
...Crimson was holding its own over the opening mile of the circuit but began to lag behind the Quakers during an uphill stretch in the second mile, a particularly perfidious part of the course that was partially washed out by heavy rains. By the time the harriers approached the last leg of the course, aptly known as "Cemetery Hill," the Lions had also pulled away easily...
...COOLIDGE. Even though he has been through it all himself-the crowds, the lights, the adulation-he knows as well as anyone when to seize an advantage. Says he: "Because Rita has a hit, it would be crazy not to go out now. It is not the time to lag behind. It is the time to work...
...hitting-to have a shot at joining the select club of the .400 hitters, which includes Ty Cobb, Joe Jackson, Nap Lajoie, George Sisler, Rogers Hornsby, Harry Heilmann and Bill Terry. In an era when batters must contend with night games and coast-to-coast jet lag -handicaps that the oldtimers never faced-the intense first baseman of the Minnesota Twins was hitting .402 last week and had been up to .411 when the season moved into July. In June he batted .486-with one astonishing eleven-game streak at .610. What's more, Ca-rew's performance...