Word: straggler
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...obvious KGB agents, judging by their suits, overcoats and good fur hats. The agents cursed and shoved the journalists, sending two of them sprawling into the curbside snow. As the shaken reporters picked themselves up, all but one of the gang disappeared down a side street. The straggler, a tall, beefy young man wearing a karakul hat, followed the correspondents as they headed for their car a block away...
...been in severe spasm the day before. Benoit was "too strong," said Grete, who had never before lost a marathon that she finished. By the halfway point, according to her old Norwegian saying, "the train had already left." Waitz was one of the few runners who viewed the Swiss straggler with a totally unmixed emotion: "I would have taken her right off the track. I don't like to watch that." Benoit sighed, "She had come so far," but had to agree. "Nothing is more important than life...
...shocked if you bump into someone running laps around the Yard this weekend. The jogger is not a straggler from this week's Boston Marathon, but a participant in a 347-mile relay which is sponsored by a student meditation group...
...thinclads captured the title after overcoming an eight--point lead which Northeastern accumulated on the first day of the weekend meet. When the last Brandeis straggler finally crossed the line in the 1600 relay, the thickly accented voice of the Boston College announcer told a story quite different form the previous...