Word: stride
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...worst luck--whose very story was a fairy tale of racing history, ended his career on the home turn of the running of the jockey Club Gold Cup. He broke from the inside and sat in third place for most of the way, until that single fatal stride canceled an almost certain victory in his last scheduled race before retirement...
Senior Eric Schuler took first overall cruising across the line in 25:28. Freshman standout Paul Gompers and sophomore Peter Jelley came in a stride or two later to nab second and third. Only Bruin Tom Jirelle blocked a Crimson sweep of the first five places, taking fourth...
...harriers took their victory in stride. "We're not really that keyed up for these small meets," Goode said. "Coach Fikes is really getting us to train hardest for Eastern regional competition, and hopefully Nationals...
...Harvard Yard stride of many other administrators is more easily recognizable. And some of his Government Department colleagues produce more New York Times op-ed articles. But Sidney Verba '53 is a College official whose increasing influence on undergraduate life at Harvard is rivaled...
...silver-haired and there is a certain heaviness in his stride; too many neon midnights, too many gray-lit dawns. But if he is weary, he is not yet cynical; if his luck is currently as battered as his trench coat, his streetwise honor has been burnished instead of tarnished by hard use. He is Bob the Gambler, out to rob the casino at Deauville, and he is the only certifiable grownup now appearing as a hero on any American screen outside of the revival houses or the late shows...