Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gallagher was halfway home when Bingham got a hold of the ball. A good throw would have nailed the runner easily. Instead Bingham's errant throw was to the first base side of home and Gallagher slid in to make...
...longer is there any maybe about it. At 21, Nancy Lopez is the hottest young golfer in the pro ranks. In eleven tournaments on the Ladies Professional Golf Association circuit, she has finished in the top ten seven times, beginning with a runner-up mark in her first competition, the 1977 U.S. Open. This spring she won two tournaments in a row before finishing second last week to South Africa's Sally Little in a sudden-death play-off at the Kathryn Crosby-Honda Civic Classic in San Diego. Long off the tee, extraordinarily accurate around the green...
Harvard rounded out the sunshine sweep with a pair of shutouts on the final two days. The Crimson blanked tourney runner-up Delaware, 3-0, and then detonated Mt. St. Mary's College 17-0 in the final game of the round robin...
...Sunday runoff. If the left were to have any chance of winning, each of the two parties would have to withdraw its candidate in districts where the other's candidate had won in the first round. They would then have to put their combined weight behind the front runner, whether Communist or Socialist. Without such a deal, the leftist vote would be split in many districts, giving a strong advantage in the runoff to the center-right candidates led by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac...
...lame-duck Governor, New Mexico's Jerry Apodaca looks suspiciously like a healthy road runner. Apodaca, 43, has spent the past six weeks chugging through the hills [ near the executive mansion, trying to get in shape for the Boston Marathon on April 17. "Monday through Friday I run eight miles a day and on the weekend I do ten miles a day-except when I'm getting tired," says the Governor, a veteran jogger and former running back at the University of New Mexico. Apodaca's longest previous race was a 13-miler...