Word: straightaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jumbo Elliott calls Nehemiah the smoothest hurdler he has ever seen and, indeed, Nehemiah visualizes his event as a nearly unimpeded run down a straightaway. "I try to run right through the hurdle, as though it's not even there," he says. "A lot of hurdlers, you can see the jump when they run. With me, it's more or less running, then an exaggerated stride for the hurdle...
...much of it. A member of the minority Kalenjin tribal group, arap Moi will be particularly dependent on three powerful figures who belong to the dominant Kikuyu tribe: Minister of Natural Resources Mbiyu Koinange, 71, Attorney General Charles Njonjo, 58, and Finance Minister Mwai Kibaki, 47, whom arap Moi straightaway appointed as his Vice President. That troika, along with Kenyatta, has plotted Kenya's pro-Western, pro-capitalist course for the past several years. Their support guaranteed arap Moi's unopposed selection by a caucus of the country's only party, the Kenya African National Union...
...look--a straightaway, three-quarters of a mile. Then just when you think you've got it made, there's some clown sneaking up on your port side to challenge you for the inside of the turn. Weeks Bridge sports the trickiest turn in the course--you sort of want to aim for the outside edge of the center arch and turn sharply right before you enter the bridge. Watch out, if you've done it right you'll just miss losing some paint off your port blades on the inside of the arch. Gulp, swallow...
Reggie Jackson drove in the game's winning run in the eighth with a Reggie Jackson-type home run to straightaway center field. The abortive comeback effort by the Sox in the last two frames may dull the memory of Jackson's clout, but it cannot deny the importance. Reggie Jackson was once again the hero on the type of battlefield where he can be nothing else, when the battle is all or most of the marbles...
...Straightaway center field requires a prodigious drive, offering bushes to frustrate fielders, as runners go for extra bases. The left field wall is a three-story building of final-club heritage. Along the left field line, a 10-foot high link fence prevents all but towering shots from landing in the nearby club's garden...