Word: stride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...large the East Coast could take a vicious swipe of winter in its stride, reminding itself that this was the way the winters used to be in the good old days. But in the South, where the good old days used to be warm and balmy, the winter of the big freeze would be long remembered in terms of heartbreak and heavy losses...
Miler Delany was the only competitor left to satisfy the record-hungry crowd. And this time he tried. He settled into his snug, easygoing stride and watched Maryland's Burr Grim sprint ahead of him into a swift first quarter. Clearly, Grim was going to try to pace him past Gunnar Nielsen's indoor mark of 4:03.6. And Ron was willing. But he thought Grim was starting just a little too fast and he hung back, well off the pace. When Grim faded, Ron got up on his toes and ran for the record...
Bachelor Athlete. For Hartack, getting the mostest out of a horse starts with the warmup jog to the starting gate. He seems to examine his mount with the seat of his pants and the toes of his boots. "If a horse has a bad leg I change the stride in the warmup so's the horse will put his weight on both legs. Even if the leg hurts, you can't pity him and let him favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering...
...sense when the gate is going to spring. When I leave the gate, sometimes I take my finger off the horse right away, sometimes not. You keep the horse loose. Then, out of the gate, you gather him up and set the bit in his mouth and settle his stride to the snugness you want...
...weight lifter than a baseball player. With 215 lbs. packed on a 5 ft. 9 in. frame, he had a barrel belly and a pair of massive legs. But on a baseball diamond Campanella was an athlete of grace who bolted the bases with a sprinter's furious stride and howitzered the long ball to left with a short, powerful swing...