Word: lapping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...familiar stride of Adam Dixon was a welcome sight in the 800-meter event. Dixon ignited the crowd by resting in dead last until the gun lap, when like a vision of Dave Wottle, he switched into high gear and accelerated all the way to the finish line with another meet record...
...more than an hour, the two men sat under a magnolia tree in the Rose Garden and talked. Yellow legal pad in lap, Jimmy Carter did more listening than speaking. They met again that afternoon with their advisers present, then by themselves the next morning. The meetings, as Press Secretary Jody Powell observed, were "very warm," and at the state dinner held that night in his guest's honor, Carter himself jokingly alluded to the admiration he felt for his visitor. "I'm thankful one man is not running against me," the President said. "How would you like...
Dixon hung in the backfield until the final half lap, when he broke out in that familiar stride and flew by the pack to an easy win and an exultant team cheering section. Teammate Thad McNulty followed Dixon in at second, smiling...
...rest, a melange, college students for the most part, mixed with a few veterans of other older movements. Past the J. Edgar Hoover Building, home of the FBI, past the Treasury Department, past a few bemused Washingtonians, the march winds on for 45 minutes, spilling out onto the lap of the Capitol, under a shaky wooden stage. A few voices emerge from the sixties to start things off: Rev. William Sloan Coffin, now pastor of Riverside in New York; Peter Yarrow, who as the first third of Peter Paul and Mary did this sort of thing a long time...
...goal this year was to break 1:35. This morning (Saturday) I felt easy, going at 1:35.80--and I'd let up for the last lap. Tonight I was really hurting from head to toe for the last 15 yards. I just put my head down and I didn't look to see where anyone was," Gaines said...