Word: winner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rain washed out the crucial matchup between the Sox and the New York Yankees, draining away virtually all hope the Baltimore Orioles had of catching the Fenway front-runners. By virtue of the two day long cloudburst, the Red Sox evaded a confrontation with 22 game winner Catfish Hunter, who will now move on with his Yankee teammates to face the Orioles tomorrow night...
...because their favorite is making a determined run at the leader. Suddenly Gourmet Belch stops dead in its tracks and Cannabis veers off unexplainably. From back in the pack Motown Missile, pride of the Israeli Rocket Racing Stables, surges down the stretch, takes the lead, and sprints home the winner-by a beak...
...hundred contested ballots, Durkin opposed efforts to have the first election voided and a new special election declared, preferring to cast his lot with the Democratic majority in the Senate, and on the committee. Since the first vote count in New Hampshire after the election had shown him the winner, though only by ten votes, this was not an unreasonable position; after all, winning by a little is still winning, as Lyndon Johnson proved in 1948. But when it became apparent that the condition of many of the ballots in question was going to make it impossible for the Senate...
...last week at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex., was won in exactly 21.98 sec. As the ultimate sprint for quarter horses−cowboy mounts bred for brief bursts of speed, often by crossbreeding with thoroughbreds−the Futurity yielded an opulent purse of no less than $330,000 to the winner, a fat 58% more than the $209,600 first prize at the Kentucky Derby. Even the tenth horse, which was scratched, collected...
...rehearsed, let alone laid out in advance. The performance benefits enormously from the authority of Betty Allen's Monisha and Willard White's Ned, not to mention Schuller's buoyant conducting. But it is Carmen Balthrop as Treemonisha who is easily the hit of the evening. Winner of the 1975 Metropolitan Opera auditions, she still moves too cautiously on stage, but her lyric soprano voice has an appealing woodwind glow and she uses it with authority...