Word: raced
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...candidates renewed campaign hostilities as their aides waited for the impact of Sunday night's nationally televised debate to show up in the close race for the White House. The first polls rated the 90-minute confrontation a tossup...
...were victorious over Cornell, 24-33, and Columbia, 21-34, but lost to the University of Pennsylvania, 27-32 in the four-team, one-race meet. Ted Ullyot, running his second cross country race ever, won with a time of 26:15.7, edging out senior teammate Brian Cann by two-tenths of a second...
...cross country competition, the winner of the race earns the least points among the field. The team with the lowest score wins the meet...
...according to the plan. Five girls were running together at the lead at the mile mark," Haggerty said. "Our women ran a very aggressive race. Cornell didn't offer much opposition. Although we can't rest on our laurels, since each meet will be more difficult, the prospects look good...
...thoughts with those of other, indeterminate voices, but in scattered remarks elsewhere: a few slurs in his letters, a stunning prescription in a 1933 lecture for the establishment of a "living tradition" in a society: "What is still more important is unity of religious background; and reasons of race and religion combine to make any large number of free-thinking Jews undesirable." Such an abominable opinion cannot be excused, yet Eliot has defenders who find the issue regrettable but overblown. British Poet D.J. Enright notes, "A friend of mine made the best observation: 'But good Lord, he did not like...