Word: sprint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Derrick Horner specializes in the 55- and 200-meter sprints and the long jump, and can also run the 400-meter dash. Last spring, Horner finished second in the 100-meter sprint at the Outdoor Championships. He also placed at last February's Heptagonal Championships...
...first two periods, Harvard passed crisply and stayed out of the "sin-bin" to sprint out to a 3-0 lead. Roy provided the defensive gems with a series of crucial stops...
...Harvard did a good job of seeing what we were doing and they gave us a little problem with the sprint draw in the first half," Steele said. "We went in at halftime and what we did is try to make the adjustment to help us with the cutbacks they were getting and in retrospect, it was a gamble that backfired...
...late-night king. After soaring during the summer, Hall's ratings have slacked off a bit this fall. (The kids who constitute his main audience, explain show executives, have gone back to school.) Through it all, Tonight's ratings have remained relatively stable. "This race is not a sprint, it's a marathon," notes Brandon Tartikoff, president of NBC Entertainment. "Whatever burns the brightest, fades the fastest...
Shortly after 6 a.m. on Saturday an engineer climbed into the newly exposed space to evaluate the test. He was astonished: something had moved inside a silver Chevrolet Sprint. Excited rescuers crawled cautiously closer. They found a man, alive and semiconscious, still strapped into the front seat. When a paramedic shouted, the man moved his head. Struggling gingerly for five hours, they extricated Buck Helm, 57, a shipping clerk, who managed to wave an arm as he was lifted to a waiting ambulance amid the cheers of exultant searchers. His condition was described as critical but stable. He had survived...