Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After leading all the way on the dead, calm waters of the Severn, Navy's varsity crew was still able to take the stroke up to a backbreaking 40 per minute to hold off Cornell's closing sprint, cross the finish line 6 ft. in front and win its 31st straight race. (Last defeat: in the I.R.A. Regatta, June...
...warm up in the rain, began to jog toward the starting line on the hill where the wet macadam of Highway 135 reaches toward Boston. The starter's gun barked at the stroke of noon. "Look at those guys," said a newsman astonished by the first scrambling sprint for position. "They've got million-dollar legs and five-cent heads." But by the time the field reached the first check point in Framingham, the tangle had unwound. The nickel noggins had dropped back; a Staten Island, N.Y. schoolteacher named William Welsh was striding easily in the lead. Close...
...Natick Nick Costes' students pleaded from the roadside: "Hurry, Mr. Costes." He obliged. At Wellesley Square he had the lead. He was running like a man who had studied the style of Czech Distance Ace Emil Zatopek-a sprint, then a stretch of jogging, then another sprint...
...traditional skimmers on the banks of the Schuylkill, the University of Pennsylvania's varsity eight-oared crew pulled away from Princeton and Columbia, held its lead through the last mile of the Henley (mile and five-sixteenths) course, and held on to rowing's senior sprint-racing trophy: the 76-year-old Childs...
...were Renny Little in the mile relay with a 50 flat quarter; Art Siler with a second place in the discus throw; Dave McLean, Don French, and Al Wills with good early season miles in the four mile relay; and Dick Wharton with a strong 880 anchor in the sprint medley relay...