Word: runner
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...season and it’s definitely the best time of the year.” The team took to the warmer waters at Crown Point Shores Park at Mission Bay in San Diego against stiff competition—the field included defending national champion Washington as well as runner-up Stanford. While the varsity eight placed third in its division, the second varsity eight defeated Washington and Cal’s second boats to capture the Sharp Cabrillo Cup with a time of 5:52.31. “The race went really well,” said senior...
...million people crushed on the island, half of them out of work. The Soylent Corporation, which runs the town, determines there's only one way to feed these people: by feeding them people. The bitter cop Heston plays is a precursor to the Harrison Ford role in Blade Runner. One big difference: Soylent Green, and Heston's other s-f horror shows, made lots of money. The star's presence brought the crowds in to watch their doomed destiny...
...complete-game effort, twirling seven shutout innings, allowing just two hits and a walk, and striking out eight.Freshman Dillon O’Neill led off the game with a single grounded past the second baseman, but Harvard would not get another hit—or put a runner on any way—until the sixth, when freshman Sean O’Hara blooped a single to enter. “[Scarlata] just didn’t give anyone anything to hit,” Stack-Babich said. “Anytime you get a good outing like that...
...back named Dodge Connolly, who may have lost a few steps on the field but is yards ahead of most people in sensing pro football's glittering future. That potential is personified by Carter Rutherford (John Krasinski) who has it all: he's a war hero, a snake-hipped runner and cute as all get out. He is a version of Red Grange, who came out of Illinois, signed a huge contract with the Chicago Bears and began the economic and social transformation of the game; the road to the Super Bowl started, however primitively, with Grange...
...denies he cut his old friend out of the foreign policy brain trust, saying he had left town when the spoils of election victory were being divided. But the friendship seemed severed and now, with Lake serving as top foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama and Holbrooke a front runner for Secretary of State under Hillary Clinton, the two men find themselves in one of the most high-stakes competitions of their careers...