Word: runner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sprint man Clifton Mayberry, who has, clocked, a 9.9 100-yard dash, is the other dual runner on the team. The mile run will be charged to the responsibility of sophomore Jeff Campbell, whose fastest time thus far has been...
Died. Steve Prefontaine, 24, fast-finishing long-distance runner; of injuries suffered in a midnight auto smashup; near Eugene, Ore. Holder of every American track record above 2,000 meters, the fiercely independent "Pre" was the leading long-distance contender for the 1976 Olympics and was only beginning to peak as a runner...
...Front Runner. At any rate, she is bigger. More than 16 hands tall, coffee-colored, Ruffian has enormous dimensions, particularly for a filly. At age two her girth already measured 75½ in. (1½ in. more than Secretariat's at that age). Her hindquarters are huge, and she puts them to good use. Ruffian runs with a smooth, gliding stride, and no sign of strain. "She fools you because she runs so smooth and easy," says Panamanian Jockey Jacinto Vasquez, who also rides Foolish Pleasure. Says Trainer Frank Whiteley Jr., "Her speed scares the hell...
...wonder there's an edge to the Bostonians' insults--it's like the American track team in China, last week, impressed in spite of themselves because the Chinese fans seemed to really mean it about friendship, not competition, but dubious deep down inside--"Americans like to win," one runner told reporters firmly, as though it was an indictment of the Chinese. (Then at the final banquet half the team got drunk and walked on tables--the Chinese were polite about it.) But the Bostonian reaction has different nuances, because the Yankees' whole dignified tradition depended on half a century...
...Kanfer calls Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee the "only literary work" in which the bicycle's glory is sung [April 9]. Albert Schweitzer, born just 100 years ago, was eight or nine when the rumor spread in his Alsatian village that a "speed-runner" was at the village inn. Schweitzer says in his charming childhood memoirs: "Today's young people can't imagine what the coming of the bicycle meant to us. A hitherto undreamed of possibility of getting into nature was opened before us, and I made full and joyous...