Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Black and White advanced to the finals with a 8.6-second win over UCLA (6:49.90 to 6:58.50) and a victory over Princeton in the semifinals--crossing the finish line ahead of the Tigers in the speedy time...
...Crimson won the race by one and one-quarter lengths, crossing the finish line in the time...
Nothing is constant except change...except at the Union. The lines are still long and still slow. Braying fools still jump ahead of you to be with their friends. People still get in the right line because it's shorter when the left line is much closer to the food. There is still a mad mob around the drinks and the salad bar and breakfast pastries...
Right above Stevie Wonder's great lines sits a passage of Steven Biko's testimony that eloquently discusses the meaning of Black consciousness. Now, if I were Stevie Wonder, I'd feel pretty silly comparing my two-line cliche that sold a bunch of records to monumental statements made by one of the best known martyrs to the cause of racial equality...
Protecting a one-quarter length lead with 500 meters to go, the Crimson faltered badly after losing Rudnicki and struggled over the finish line in 7:01.34. The Big Green finished first (6:40.74), and MIT (6:42.97) also passed the Crimson in the last quarter of the race...