Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bush hopes to win the nomination in the stretch...
Pulling into a service station is beginning to seem like entering a combat zone. With more and more of the nation's 171,000 gas stations closing on weekends, shortening hours during the week, and cutting sales to $5 per customer to stretch supplies, frazzled and angry drivers are starting to boil over...
...showdown made for Churchill Downs on Kentucky Derby day. Spectacular Bid was the king of the Eastern three-year-olds, a smooth-striding colt that had simply overwhelmed his competition in Florida and Kentucky. Flying Paster was the best of the West, a dangerous stretch runner that had dominated California racing throughout the spring. The two colts battled behind the leaders for the first mile on the old course in Louisville, Ky., last week, but when it came to the testing moment on the far turn, Spectacular Bid ran off from Flying Paster and away from the field, winning...
Lowenstein got off to a fast start, moving through the first seven holes in one-over. He faltered on the backside when he lost five strokes to par in the densely wooded four-hole stretch from 13 through...
...Harvard baseball team is, make no mistake about it, a very good team. That it has failed as yet to duplicate the greatness of its 1978 counterpart is due primarily to the randomness of highs and lows that can affect a sport like baseball over a 30-game stretch...