Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Race to Safety. As the flaming truck rolled, driverless, to a stop, scores of trucks and cars jammed up behind it. Coughing, half-blinded, their drivers and passengers got out and began running for safety; somehow, all got out alive. Within minutes the blocked section of tunnel, 18 ft. below the Hudson River's bed, was a roaring furnace...
...eleven years of racing, canny, Canadian-born Jockey Ted ("Slasher") Atkinson had whipped his way home with the winner almost more times than he could remember; had won more than $6,000,000 in purses for his employers. But unlike his rival, banana-nosed Jockey Eddie Arcaro, Ted Atkinson had never been first at the finish in a big race like the Kentucky Derby or the Preakness...
...days later, the largest flotilla of shells ever to compete in one regatta-32 in all-lined up on Lake Onondaga, N.Y. for the 2,000-meter Eastern sprint championships for varsity, junior varsity and freshmen. With the traditional coach's gloom, Tom Bolles said: "In a short race, some egg beater might win." But when the six varsity finalists (Pennsylvania, Navy, Cornell, Yale, Princeton and Harvard) got off the mark, it was clear that no egg beater was going to steal the race...
...afternoon of tap day last week, there was a stir of special excitement at Yale. Would Halfback Levi Jackson, the first Negro ever to be elected captain of a Yale football team (TIME, Dec. 6), also be the first of his race to be tapped for a senior society...
...track meet will end the Straus Trophy race, which Kirkland is almost sure of winning. Lowell, the only other possible winner, must finish six places ahead of Kirkland in track to take the trophy...