Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's Joe Leondis suddenly came alive, popping on a straightaway 20 footer and a bruising drive, as the Crimson clung to a 26-25 lead...
...hear a man exclaiming: "I think just seeing what's going on here is fun." By the time the race starts it is 3:30 and we are again standing at turn 6. The race is 59 laps long. On the 10th lap there is a spinout down the straightaway. The next day I will learn the driver, Helmuth Koinigg, died crashing under the guardrail. He was decapitated. Standing next to us is a man with a radio who tells us the lap numbers. After the first few places we have no idea who is in what position. The cars...
...popularity of the local Communist Party, Mercouri, a Socialist, is confident that she will be taken seriously. "There is no pretending, no act," she says of her new campaign. "There's a bit of the actor in all Greeks, and they will be able to tell straightaway whether you're genuine...
Financed by the Friends of Harvard Track, the $300,000 facility boasted a six-lane, one-eleventh of a mile banked Tartan track, with an 80-yard straightaway, as well as accommodations for field events...
Custom calls for the 33 cars to line up three abreast in eleven rows, circle the track and then gradually quicken the pace for a nice orderly start. But once the winged, turbo-charged monsters come roaring down the final straightaway at 150 m.p.h., each trying to jump lanes or sneak ahead, the result is more like a motorized stampede...