Word: runner
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...night before the Florida primary, Rudy Giuliani was still vowing to shock pollsters: "I've been doing the impossible all my life!" He certainly did the impossible, plummeting from front runner to also-ran in a few weeks, finishing a distant third behind Mitt Romney and John McCain. And just as John Edwards, a sunny personality who ran as an angry rabble-rouser, was departing the Democratic field, America's mayor, an angry man who ran as Mr. Sunshine, was endorsing McCain...
...guts battle between a man risen from the dead and a candidate seemingly created in a lab. On Tuesday, a resurrected McCain slipped beyond the moneyed Michigan native's manicured grasp to win by five points in the Florida Republican primary and cement his status as the G.O.P. front-runner. Romney smiled through a thinly revised version of his ritual stump speech, as though the race hadn't fundamentally changed. But one could imagine what he might be thinking in the darker recesses of his mind...
...singles draw, playing a tenacious back-court game that allowed him to power past four-year Yale starter Rory Green 6-4, 6-4 in the quarterfinals.Freshman Aba Omodele-Lucien won his first match in the B-draw 6-4, 6-2 before falling to the eventual runner-up. Fellow freshman Will Guzick lost to the eventual B draw champion in the first round, and after winning one match in the consolation draw, lost to that bracket’s eventual champion.Harvard’s lone entrant in the C-singles draw, freshman Tim Wu, made...
...Katy Hinkle and Katherine Pickard and seniors Pangilinan and Slaight clocked a 1:47.43 first-place finish in the 200-yard medley relay. Harvard would go on to win a total of 12 of 14 events during the day. Sophomore Alexandra Clarke, last year’s Ivy League runner-up in the 1000-yard freestyle, cruised to a 10:15.47 win in the same event. The team’s underclassmen continued to impress throughout the day as Crimson freshmen swept the 200-yard freestyle. Kate Mills touched the wall in 1:50.94 for the first-place finish, while...
...Rudy has certainly confounded expectations, plummeting from front-runner to also-ran in just a few weeks. And if the plunge wasn't totally unexpected - a twice-divorced, pro-choice, anti-gun, pro-gay-rights New Yorker had to be a tough sell in a Republican primary - the cause certainly was. Who would have thought the man who declared war on New York's criminals, squeegee men, street vendors, taxi drivers, graffiti artists, jaywalkers and even purveyors of "incivility" - in other words, New Yorkers - was going to shy away from a fight...