Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...train is a community. At each stop, we dash down the platform to the food kiosk, hoping for anything other than pickles and kefir. The day of tomatoes, eight of us have to sprint for the last car, and all the passengers cheer. The Poles, embassy staff returning to Poland after three years in Peking, smoke heavily during the day and drink heavily at night. They sleep two to a berth, having wedged their luggage into the top bunks. The English, mostly students returning from a year in Peking, plug two-by-two into Walk-mans...
Riordan brought Harvard back, using just 2:15 to march 66 yards and to within two points after his 15-yard TD run. But Dartmouth blitzed on the two-point try--a sprint out right with Riordan having the option to throw to John O'Brsen in the end some or take it all the way himself. Patsis and Dartmouth linebacker John Cornell hit Riordan just as he released the pass intended for O'Brsen, which fell way short...
...reaches of the Indian Ocean and on to Sydney, Australia. The third leg of the journey spans the South Pacific from Sydney to Cape Horn and then to Rio de Janeiro, while the fourth will bring those skillful and fortunate enough back to Newport. "It's not a sprint, it's a decathlon," says Race Director Jim Roos, property manager of Goat Island and one of the contest's principal organizers. "This is probably the World Series of sailing...
...upon 15-hour day, the Pope persevered, both visibly wearied by the self-imposed ordeal and rejuvenated by the obvious stir he was creating. Said one member of the Pope's entourage: "He is a good dash man but not a miler. He gets awfully tired after a sprint. But the crowd scenes and the youth meetings seem to inject adrenaline into his veins." Concluded Glasgow Catholic Archbishop Thomas Winning: "This was his hardest mission. The British are a phlegmatic people, yet he captured them completely...
...year history of the heavyweight Eastern Sprint Championships, the crown jewel of Eastern crew. Harvard has won 16 titles. Yale, second on the list, has won just six times. Harvard's lightweights, in 39 years of competition, have 20 wins...