Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...team victories and the sunshine were not the only bright spots on the trip. First, Hooks and distance runner Bill Okerman look strong after rebounding from injuries. Other potential point-getters include freshmen McDevitt, Pellegrini and Kinney in the weight events. Campbell and Rafto in the mile, and the amazingly versatile Embree in practically every event you can name...
...captains strove mightily to meet the voter turnout quotas expected of them. The captains pointedly greeted voters by their names, while lesser machine workers carefully checked off against neighborhood lists those people who showed up at the polls. By midafternoon, if a "safe" voter had not shown up, a runner was dispatched to bring him in before closing time...
...heard a 'pang.' The guy I was playing with said it went off the green," recalls the one handicapper from Las Palmas, Spain. "It had landed in the hole on the fly." Vik went on to nail down second place in the Norwegian Open and was also the runner up in the Spanish Open...
...Jeff had the guy one-to-one and couldn't out-fake him," he laughed. "Campbell's just a poor broken-field runner...
JACKSON. His win improved only slightly his position in Florida but greatly strengthened him in New York (which has 274 delegates), where he was already the front runner. He enthusiastically declared, "I am going to win in New York by more than a majority -it could be a landslide." Jackson also won about three-fourths of the vote at caucuses back home in Washington last week. He expects to do well in primaries in the big industrial states, particularly Pennsylvania (April 27), Michigan (May 18) and California (June...