Word: straightaways
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...furiously, Hailwood pushed the big 500-cc. bike across the starting line. The engine caught, and he hopped aboard side saddle, gunning his throttle in the same motion. By the time he heaved a leg over the saddle and slipped into position, he was already 100 yds. down the straightaway, topping 70 m.p.h...
...name," said one, "because they'd never let me come back here again. But it was a dirty, cheating victory. There was oil all over that goddam track." "I had to wipe the oil off my goggles every time I came down the straightaway," complained McCluskey, tossing off a tumbler full of booze. "They had the black flag out, but Agajanian talked them out of it." Said Eddie Sachs, who was driving in his seventh 500: "This is the rottenest victory I've ever seen. The Lotus-Fords were fantastic; they should have won easy." Sachs was still...
...closed-course record away from her archrival, Jacqueline Auriol of France, the American Jackie whipped the knife-winged jet through its paces at 1,203.94 m.p.h., erasing Auriol's 1962 record of 1,149.65 m.p.h. And last month Jackie cracked her own mark in the 15-25-kilometer straightaway dash, boosting the Starfighter to 1,273.10 m.p.h., which, as every girl knows, is almost twice the speed of sound...
...greatest joy without having tried anything else). But if you think experience offers a plurality of joys, if you have interests extending beyond formal education which you have done nothing to satisfy, then be assured: breadth does not equal academic abandon. If, on the other hand, the straightaway path to a graduate or professional degree is the only thing that interests you, then know this: some detours have prettier scenery...
...steered by Joe McKillip, 30, slammed into a soft snow wall as it neared the finish line; McKillip was hospitalized with a dislocated shoulder and lacerated cheek. The day after, a Canadian driver's throat was gashed almost from ear to ear when he cracked up on the straightaway in the stretch...