Word: slower
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Army's Curt Alitz careened across the tape in first place with a time of 24:37, which was 15 seconds slower than his winning time last year, as a dank mist enshrouding the Bronx slowed down the field. Dean Stevens of Dartmouth traversed the circuit in 25:02 to come in the runner-up while Princeton's Bruce Barnes and Jerry Kooymans finished third and fourth...
...look at the girl's three-mile course as a speed race. We train for a strong first mile around 5:20 to establish dominance at the start. I condition the girls with speed/endurance intervals; first we do a few fast, then rest, and do several at a slower pace," Hunt explained...
...Hunter who lost his wife a few years ago to cervical cancer, contracted, she was sure, because she had committed the sin of enjoying sex too much. Hunter had been slow on the football field, if a sure tackler, and as he gets up around 50 he's even slower, broken down after 25 years in the mines with a bent left arms that won't straighten out all the way and a wheezing in the mornings from lungs full of high-grade bituminous coal dust...
...Texas Girl at the Funeral of her Father" is the only lament on the album. Newman pulls it off pretty well, despite the cheesy beginning, complete with violins. This song stands out because it is much slower than most of the other songs on the album and because the words and the music go together well...
...actually a bit out of Ronstadt's range. When she realized the song was too high and too powerful for her, Ronstadt finally dropped it from her concert repertoire about a year ago. By contrast, the Holly song on Simple Dreams is just a little softer, just a little slower, and as a result it sounds more than a little better...