Word: runners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...break, the experts started congratulating themselves. Never Bend was in front when the horses pounded past the grandstand; No Robbery was close alongside, and Candy Spots, a strong stretch runner, was rating easily in third. All through the long backstretch, they held those positions, opening up a huge gap on the rest of the field...
...Amos Alonzo Stagg, who was 96 when he appeared on Oct. 26, 1958. Runner-up: Grandma Moses...
Stortstop Tom Bilodeau also failed to observe this alarming occurence, and the ball dropped in safely for a double. Gilmor then threw it away in an attempt to stop a runner at third, an act which allowed the third run on the play to score...
Adding just the right whiff of Gallic is indestructible Charles Boyer, a delight to watch as he runs a school for would-be grooms, whose current pupil is Ricardo Montalban, the runner-up in the match for Hope's millions. High point in Boyer's my-fair-laddie crash course: instruction by the master himself in the art of nibbling an arm ("The elbow is a very nice place, and from there it is all good"). Backgrounds of the Grande Corniche are getting to be a grand cliché in movies nowadays, and Ball's scenario...
...with a slip of paper clenched tightly in his fist. Scrawled on the paper was a series of digits: 1:02, 2:04, 3:09, 4:14, 5:19, 6:24, 7:29, 8:31. These were the times at which jaunty Jim Beatty, 28, the best U.S. distance runner and holder of the world indoor record for the mile, was to complete each segment of a precisely planned assault on the indoor two-mile record (8 min. 34.4 sec.) held by New Zealand's Murray Halberg...