Word: mile-and-a-half
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...clothes and had no lights. The officer asked him where he was going, he was going home to his "father" and used the named Shawn Devlin. "Shawn did not respond to initial questions, so the officer asked him to get off his bike." He was about a mile to mile-and-a-half from Devlin?s home, and the police officer - it appears from the incident report, the chief said - sent...
...part because of logging erosion -- that all sport and commercial fishing was banned recently. Environmentalists gripe that wildlife-survey regulations are a joke because logging companies do their own surveys. But regulations have slowed log production, and Pacific has fought back. In 1990 the company reamed a broad, mile-and-a-half corridor into the middle of the Headwaters forest and called it, with a wink and a snicker, "our wildlife-biologist study trail...
Moreover, nobody really ever considered it a hardship to make the 100-yard trek from Cabot House to the Currier bus stop. After all, Quadlings' legs are strong from walking the mile-and-a-half sojourn to the River after missing the shuttle numerous times...
...Yankee-Doodle dash in England last week as he became the first American jockey to win the fabled Epsom Derby in 65 years. Before a crowd of near ly 300,000 that included his father and Queen Elizabeth II, Cauthen led from start to finish over the mile-and-a-half course on three-year-old Slip Anchor, thereby becoming the sole rider to win both the Epsom and the Kentucky derbies. Ahead by 15 lengths at the final turn, "I couldn't believe my eyes," the 118-lb., 5-ft. 5-in. Cauthen recalled later. "I couldn...
...Britain's royals were all dressed up with lots of places to go. Prince Charles and Princess Diana last week completed the first half of their 17-day trip to Italy. Meanwhile, back in England, Princess Anne joined 16 male and female amateur jockeys on the famous mile-and-a-half Derby course at Epsom to benefit one of her favorite charities, Riding for the Disabled Association. An accomplished horsewoman in her first flat race, she did quite nicely, finishing fourth. Down south in Sardinia, Diana took first place in the eyes of charmed Italians, who were treated...