Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That decided him. Breathing fire, he leaped into the race for the governorship, tirelessly stumped the state in a piped vest and his "crapshooters coat" (tight, double-breasted grey, with black cuff & collar bindings and pearl buttons). His platform: a thorough statewide house cleaning...
Cecil John Rhodes believed in a master race. He got mad whenever he thought about how pudding-headed George III and his pig-headed advisers had split that race. The money Rhodes made digging diamonds and empire-building in South Africa he left for Oxford-to unite Britain and the U.S. (Germany was added, as an afterthought) as the leaders of a world at peace. He thought Rhodes scholarships would turn the trick in a century...
Washington and Rutgers were the leaders at the start of the race, with California and Wisconsin in strong contention, but Cornell, rowing closest to shore on a lake that was exceedingly choppy and made for bad times by all boats, moved up to even terms at the halfway mark, opened a half-length lead over the Huskies at 1,200 meters, and was never headed thereafter. Rutgers faded badly in the closing minutes to finish seventh, and the M.I.T. eight, a considerably improved crew after trailing the Crimson in its first race of the season, moved up quickly...
After the race, several of the shells were swamped by the rough water while rowing back to the crewhouse and some of the oarsmen had to swim for shore...
...fellow athlete trudged homeward, Vag had visions of sneaking down to the courts before breakfast some morning and getting in a fast game. The church bell couplet announced that five-thirty had arrived, just as they reached the corner at Eliot House. "Race you back," muttered Vag, disgustedly...