Word: outruns
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...enough to wear a man's pants." On executive skirts: "Ordinary gestures like sitting on a low sofa or stepping over a puddle become difficult." On high heels: "The halting tiptoe gait they produce is thought provocative-perhaps because it guarantees that no woman wearing them can outrun a man who is chasing her." On edible underwear: "If clothes were words, these would be like talking with your mouth full." Such insights are the constructs of fiction rather than the battlements of feminism. Lurie, after all, is neither psychologist nor sociologist; she remains a novelist...
...booters were bruised or tired from the hard-fought Ivy matches at Princeton, they surely didn't show it, using their superior ball control skills to dominate the scrappy Eagles for most of the contest. While Harvard didn't outrun the psyched-up visitors (who were playing in their first Eastern Tournament ever), the nation's eighth ranked eleven simply outexecuted the Eagles on the plays--corner kicks, direct kicks, throw-ins--that often make the difference in close tournament competition...
...They came out with the same big and strong pack as last year, but were able to outrun them until they gave up," Greg "Animal" Carey, who scored two tries in the contest, said...
...idea what they're getting into." Looking at it another way, people have all too good an idea of what they are getting into: a financial minefield. With an attorney's time now commanding $40 to $150 an hour, potential clients often fear, correctly, that fees will outrun any gain they might hope for by taking legal action. At $5 to $10 a copy, a how-to guide strikes many as the wiser investment. Other factors in the books' popularity: the post-Watergate tarnishing of lawyers' credibility and a general desire by people to take...
Stickwomen co-captains Elaine Kellogg and Chris Sailer emphasize Velie's consistency and her deceptive quickness, a quality which allows her to outrun her opponents. Kellogg elaborates, "One of Annie's greatest assets is that she doesn't look like she's moving very fast when in fact she is beating everyone...