Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile run, McNulty duelled with B.C. runner Bill Gajewski until the penultimate lap, when Gajewski, a former half-miler, passed him. On the final lap, however, McNulty took up the challenge and ran past his opponent to a first place finish...
Some were borne to center stage for the first time, including the woman on TIME'S cover, Peggy Kokernot, 25, a Houston physical education teacher and marathon runner. Along with other women athletes, she had been called on to make up for lost time when the symbolic, 2,612-mile torch relay that preceded the conference began to lag so far behind schedule there was fear the convention would outpace its torch. She was then placed in the group that ran the bronze torch into the opening session, and her own ambition says much about why there was a women...
...Gift, even knowledgeable readers had trouble recalling the model for Von Humboldt Fleisher. The difficulty would not have occurred if Bellow's chief character had been based on Robert Lowell or John Berry man or Theodore Roethke. Yet, for these celebrated poets, Delmore Schwartz was once the front runner of their generation...
...trio of Ed Sheehan, Reed Eichner, and Mark Meyer raced to Harvard's most lopsided running triumph of the evening, as they went out fast and managed to hold on in the two-mile. Meyer was passed by a B.U. runner on the last lap, but Meyer sprinted back by him to record a personal best time, ignite the fans, and send the Terriers home with their tails between their legs...
...Saturday, December 17, the cagers take a sojurn in cactus country where they will play coach Fred Snowden's Arizona five in Tuscon. The Wildcats went 21-5 last year finishing as runner-up to Utah for the Western Athletic Conference title. Both Arizona and Arizona State University are forsaking the WAC in favor of the Pacific-8, which next year will...