Word: sooners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...even superhorses can be pushed to the limit. With breeding fees as high as they are, owners are tempted to put their best horses on the track sooner and retire them to reproduce earlier. Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown winner, had 21 career starts. Smarty Jones, winner of the Derby and Preakness in 2004, logged only nine. Rank-and-file racehorses start early too but have harder careers. Winter used to be off-season for racing in the U.S., but now horses are trucked to courses where the weather is warmer and the wagering can continue. What's more...
...hoped to put the issue of how it relates to Israel on the back burner while it got on with governing the Palestinian territories, international financial pressure on Hamas brought on by the U.S. and European blockade - and now Abbas's gambit - has forced them to address the question sooner than they would have liked. Their move, Friday, to withdraw the security forces they put on the streets in Gaza to challenge Fatah suggests Hamas is inclined to cool the temperature of intra-Palestinian rivalries...
...While nagging rolling-hand carpal tunnel has hampered his production, Gilmore remains as intimidating as ever. Opposing players still band together against him, pooling resources and trading just to prevent him from buying property. Yet Gilmore has the patience of a Zen master; sooner or later, someone will leave a color open, and he will monopolize on the mistake...
...which we should be grateful. But humans are not meant to live 90-plus years, nor are we meant to violate our bodies with stainless steel, latex and pharmaceuticals in the hope of fulfilling aspirations to immortality. Some price must be paid for defying fate, nature and God. The sooner we accept that bad things will happen despite the excellent care we receive, the sooner we will appreciate that we live longer, more comfortably and, dare I say, more happily than any previous generation. TOM PALUCH, M.D. San Diego
...first two overtimes as it looked that the cards would fall Harvard’s way.“Their goal was just sort of a fluky goal right at the end,” Anderson said. “But if you give someone enough opportunities, sooner or later somebody’s going to score. I felt like it should’ve been us.”That was the story throughout the game.The Crimson took more than double the number of shots that Dartmouth did, 73-36, but when it came down to it, Dartmouth took...