Word: strides
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Doctors have their own special sleep problems. Residents are famously sleep deprived. When I was training to become a neurosurgeon, it was not unusual to work 40 hours in a row without rest. Most of us took it in stride, confident we could still deliver the highest quality of medical care...
...HKJC has been off stride lately. With the racing season just past the halfway point, turnover is down by almost $200 million from the previous year, and a five-year slide in racetrack attendance shows no sign of abating. The troubled local economy is partly to blame. So too are new competitors: illegal bookies, Internet gambling and increasingly popular sporting alternatives such as football are all cutting into revenue. Late last year, big time British bookmaker William Hill began accepting online bets on races at Happy Valley and Sha Tin. The Jockey Club is not amused. "These guys are raiding...
...Park, attracting plenty of gawkers--no small feat among seen-it-all-before Manhattanites. But I could barely move. When I tried to push off as I would with a normal pair of skates, the thick rubber wheels dragged across the ground. So I switched to a cross-country stride, methodically rolling one foot straight ahead, then following with the other. After a few tries, I managed to whiz past the walkers but was still in a dead heat with the joggers. As for swooping down dirt hills, as riders do in the videos on Crosskate.com let's just...
...Another threw a temper tantrum after two successive balls landed in the gutter. Enraged, she flung her next four shots down the lane without even looking. This might have been less upsetting if she had not scored higher with those balls than one companion did all evening. He would stride up to the lane, confident and focused, and then proceed to roll the ball feebly into the gutter like a mildly palsied...
...track events, Harvard seemed to struggle slightly on the flat track, whose tighter curves forced the Crimson runners to adapt a less natural stride and made passing more difficult...