Word: sprinted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great job psyching us up," Buriak said. "It really helped to hear things like 'Jillian, this is your last sprint on the Charles...
...opposition faces an uphill sprint. The Communists, who have ruled for 69 years, enjoy access to state money, media and organizational apparatus. To offset those advantages, six opposition parties and groups have agreed to field common candidates in the elections. Even if Mongolia's first democratic exercise is fair, local and foreign observers in Ulan Bator predict that the Communists will win by a comfortable margin. Still, it would seem that the days of absolute rule are over...
...Sprinting that early in a race is not without its costs. Harvard held off the premature Quaker charge and with 500 meters to go was ready to start its own sprint. Generally, when a crew makes a move and fails to catch the lead eight, the trailing crew cannot muster enough strength to make a second charge and fades...
Rowing downstream into a slight cross-headwind, the Crimson decided to forego the sprint and conserve energy for Sunday's races, realizing the Compton Cup was safely in hand. The Crimson finished Saturday's race a solid length-and-a-half ahead of Princeton, with a hapless MIT trailing somewhere in Harvard's wake...
After Metz's boast, the Crimson oarsmen responded with tens that left the heavies a full length ahead of UCLA at the 1300-meter mark. The race cadence of 36 strokes-per-minute was bumped up for the sprint while the Crimson crossed the line at 41, leaving second-place UCLA over a length behind...