Word: outruns
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...past four years, the world's supply of sugar has outrun demand so consistently that sugar-beet and sugarcane growers cut back on their plantings in 1962. But Europe's winter storms damaged beet crops there, and the yield of Cuba's inefficiently handled cane crop seems certain to be some 15% less than last year. As a result, speculators gambling on the likelihood of sugar shortages later this year have been pushing up the price of sugar futures. Last week these prices reached their highest levels in 40 years. Raw sugar futures were up as much...
...annual convention in Ottawa, Diefenbaker scoffed at the story: "For one who has been described in such touching and dulcet tones by the Liberal Party as being in a state of decrepitude, I want to remind them that we outran them three times, and we'll outrun them again." Conservatives called the whole thing a vicious Liberal campaign of "malice and malignity" to make the 67-year-old Diefenbaker "the target for a storm of poisoned spears." Some of Diefenbaker's Cabinet ministers flatly denied that the boss suffers from Parkinson's; so did Diefenbaker...
Besides Brouillet, who had twice before outrun Harvard's Meehan, Redmen came in fifth, sixth, eighth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh...
...Crimson harriers will be favored, but there are several factors which point to a posible victory for the Redmen from Amherst. First, this year's U. of Mass. team is one of the strongest in the school's history. Led by Bob Brouillet, who has twice outrun Harvard's star, Ed Meehan, Massachusetts has a number of men whose best times are as good as Harvard...
...cheering in the stands, he caught a touchdown pass against Yale that year for Harvard's only score in a 21-7 loss. There was a significant sequel to Teddy's efforts to improve his football skills. At Harvard, Teddy fumed at the fact that Clasby could outrun him. "Dick," he said, "sometime in the next ten years I'll bet I beat you in a race." Last month, when Clasby, now a lumber broker in a Detroit suburb, visited Teddy in Hyannisport, Kennedy suddenly announced: "I think I'm ready for that bet now." Clasby...