Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...treat, being a long-distance runner, out in the world by yourself with not a soul to tell you what to do. --Allan Sillitoe, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner...
...freshman's performance on the season was not entirely expected either, but his running was so outstanding it earned him all-Ivy status and the Mikkola Award for the most improved Harvard runner...
...there is more to Pete Fitzsimmons the runner than just a list of accomplishments. "He has a splendid attitude, he likes to run, and he is oriented to working hard and steady," McCurdy says. "But even more, he's a great competitor...
...California jamboree, attended by 15,000 people at the site of an old gold mine 90 miles north of Los Angeles, chili heads, as fanciers call themselves, stirred up chile con possum, rabbit, chicken, pork, rattlesnake, ham hocks, jerky and Portuguese sausage. An Arizona chef used fillet of road runner; the Tennessee champion boasted of his raccoon. The Hawaiian contingent made its stock (it said) from a "tired Samoan fighting cock." Californian and Texan experts used some 40 varieties of chili peppers, ranging from the relatively mild Big Jim to a Tahitian product that would blow...
...portent of an increasingly widespread interest in the legitimate theater. Initially, the Hartman plans to put on a seven-play season, and the offerings this year will include The Threepenny Opera, Joan of Lorraine by Maxwell Anderson, and the world premiere of a play called The Runner Stumbles by Milan Stitt...