Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thames put on a challenging sprint, and, to judge by the excited voice of the loudspeaker announcer, almost closed the gap. But noise was not enough. A final sprint and after 128 years, victory...
...TIME'S Hong Kong bureau, was right on the spot. Riding a Chinese Nationalist supply ship for Quemoy, he had just clambered over the side into a landing barge when Communist gunboats launched a surprise night attack. Getting ashore after a hair-raising trip under Red fire, he "sprinted up the beach as fast as an aging correspondent in blue button-down collar, British slacks and a pair of loose loafers could sprint." Three days later, airlifted off Quemoy by a Nationalist plane that took off under the nose of Communist guns, Bell was in Formosa learning from President...
Matched with the great thoroughbreds of the past, sober, hard-working Round Table seems as ordinary as a stable pony. His finishing sprint cannot equal Citation's. His reddish brown coat is run-of-the-paddock compared to the lustrous grey of Native Dancer. He sometimes even has trouble getting out of the starting gate. All Round Table can do as an unobstrusive personality of the tracks is win horse races. This season the industrious four-year-old colt owned by Oklahoma Millionaire Travis Mitchell Kerr is an odds-on favorite to win the most gilded title in racing...
...half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.
...extremely exciting finish of a long day of races on the Charles, the Crimson pulled ahead of Penn with three-quarters of a mile to go and then held off a closing Red and Blue sprint to win by half a length...