Word: straightaways
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...three straight singles, one that drove home Commissiong, before yielding to co-captain and starting shortstop Bailey Vertovez.With little time to warm up, Vertovez walked a run home before allowing a 2-RBI single to Bears freshman Jackie Giovanniello.Brown rookie Kate Strobel then hit a three-run bomb to straightaway center, her second home run of the day, to break the game open, 11-4.“We just need to prevent the runaway inning, just try to hit our spots a little better,” junior pitcher Dana Roberts said.Harvard started off the top of the seventh...
...strides lengthened, his face churned. He left nothing on the straightaway, and if he seemed to slow a bit at the end, it was because he had used everything up. The time of 19.31 seconds flashed on the scoreboard. He beat the world record by .01, a hundredth of a second (the winning time was later lowered to 19.30). Michael Johnson's sacrosanct, 12-year old 200m mark, 19.32 seconds, set in the '96 Atlanta Olympics, was wiped off the track. Bolt became the first runner since Carl Lewis in 1984 to win both the 100m and 200m races...
...controversy erupted in late May over a proposal to distribute contraceptives at Gloucester High School, principal Dr. Joseph Sullivan said he was surprised that no reporter had approached him for his take on the matter. If they had, Sullivan told TIME on June 11, he would have explained straightaway that "a lack of birth control played no part" in a quadrupling of the number of teen pregnancies at the school this year compared with last year. "That bump was because of seven or eight sophomore girls," Sullivan told TIME. "They made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies...
...come-from-behind win over CCSU, in which the Crimson trailed by as many as 18, the California native nailed two triples early in the second half to cut the CCSU lead to 44-43. With Harvard leading and only a minute remaining, Housman iced the game with a straightaway three-point dagger. The shot silenced an anxious crowd and gave Harvard a 67-60 lead that forced CCSU to foul down the stretch...
Sujeet's mother Sindoor, however, says she "had marriage in sight straightaway" once Sujeet expressed interest in Carrie. "We come from a different culture," she explains. As India-born Hindus, Sindoor and Sharad Desai, both dentists, "don't expect dating and breaking [up]." Nor did Sindoor wish to expose her vulnerable son to the emotional upheavals of serial entanglements...