Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record $50,700 had been pumped into Ruidoso Downs' parimutuel machines, and the crowd's choices were a pair of California entries, Bunny's Bar Maid (2-5) and Golden Note (9-2). But when the ten-horse field broke from the gate for the breakneck straightaway dash to the wire, both favorites were left at the post, hopelessly beaten-for it is at the start, with jockeys flailing and horses driving hard, that quarterhorse races are won. Winner by a remarkable 1½ lengths was a lightly regarded chestnut colt named Pokey Bar, who shrugged...
...Stadium cinders were almost completely submerged Saturday afternoon, and the track events had to be transferred to the freshman oval. Nobody wanted to risk sprinting around a turn, so the 220 and the 220 low hurdles were run on the 200-yard straightaway...
Have Fun. If France pulled out of Algeria entirely, the Algerians would "straightaway" fall into "misery, chaos and Communism," but then "we would no longer have any duty toward them but to pity them." And if "the Soviet Union, or the United States, or both of them at once, should try to get a toehold, I say that I hope, in advance, that both of them enjoy themselves...
...official functions, were in despair. It was hard enough to satisfy the requirements of the bigwigs who poured into town; even more embarrassing were the littlewigs who had been sent souvenir inaugural invitations and, mistaking them for the real thing, commandeered white ties and tails and rushed straightaway to Washington. Scalpers swept into action, unloaded $3 grandstand seats for $15 apiece, sold reservations for windowside tables in key restaurants along the route...
...fight for the lead, spectators on a rickety scaffold in the infield leaned so far forward that the whole structure toppled with agonizing slowness, killing two and injuring 79. Wheel to wheel, lap after lap, Rathmann and Ward kept up their fight, hitting up to 180 m.p.h. on the straightaway, wheeling around the turns of the great oval at 135 m.p.h...