Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Setting new school records, Judy Rabinowitz grabbed the two-mile run and Valerie Moore placed second in the 100-yd. dash with times of 12.8 and 11.98. Moore, the first Radcliffe runner ever to break 12 seconds in the 100, finished just ahead of Patty Gopaul, who competed with a strained hamstring...
Greis had acquired quite a load of silverware since she took up the game six years ago. She was the Massachusetts Girls' Champion in 1975 and finished as runner-up in the state Schoolgirl Championship three times...
...Cliffe's Sarah Linsley finished far ahead of the competition in the mile, covering the distance in a mere 5:25.2. The sophomore runner crossed the finish line eleven seconds in front of her nearest opponent...
...seemed to realize that Bally, a short man with dark skin and a moustache, had placed second in the 81st running of this classic foot race. The Associated Press, for example, in its first bulletin decided Bally was actually Mario Cuevas, a Mexican runner who finished second in 1976. Cynics would say that to most Americans a Turk looks like a Mexican, but Bally did have a half-moon and star on his racing jersey, which is hardly a Mexican emblem. To be charitable, one could say the mistake was made because no one could believe the unheralded Bally...
...experience and the alwaysfresh quality of the Boston Marathon. There is enough space, by the way, to mention that Johnny Kelley the elder, the Marathon's 69-year-old institution, trotted across the yellow finish line roughly three hours and 30 minutes after he started. And the gray-haired runner was smiling...