Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Colburn moved up quickly, but was unsuccessful on three attempts to pass Phillipe. On the last straightaway, he tried once more and out leaned the Fordham star by six inches at the tape. The time...
...Nixon paid no attention, and in an unprecedented maneuver hailed by budget-minded women the world over, wore the dress at least twice more in public, instead of handing it over straightaway to the Smithsonian Institution. Miss Treyz explained mildly: "The Nixons are middle-American people who don't want to be flash-in-the-pan. They don't want to be jet-setty or way out. Mrs. Nixon must be ladylike." To this end, Clara Treyz advises, with Pat's consent, clothes that tend toward the bland and predictable, styles that hover on that precarious border...