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...distance runners were trying to peak for the outdoor season. My win at the IC4As was my best race. The time wasn't really good. It was a tactical race. I expected someone to make a break for it, but no one started to kick until the final straightaway. I just accelerated faster than they...
...dialogue was less than brilliant, but by now, because he repeatedly said so and then proved it, Johnson was known as a good glider, excellent on straightaway courses like Sarajevo's and good on soft snow. The Austrians prefer hard-packed, twisty plunges that test turning ability. Fair enough, except that whenever Johnson met them in the Olympic village he would grin and say, "Hi, guys, it's still snowing up there...
...business at hand. Their conversation is likely to dwell at length on social and family concerns rather than on products and prices. Notes Andreas Meckel, secretary-general of the Japanese economic promotion office in Düsseldorf: "German and American businessmen wish to come to the main point straightaway, while Japanese want to create a personal atmosphere...
...Shea, "wanted there to be a good balance between work and recreation." With a monarch, it is not always easy to know which is which. More than 6,000 San Diego citizens (and transplanted subjects) cheered and sang onshore at her arrival, but the visitor got on with business straightaway. She walked among 200 reporters (a fraction of those covering her) who had been invited aboard the comfortably staid Britannia to drink brandy and warm whisky. Mid-mingle, she had one American describe for her Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper, in which a servant is cursed...
Beckford a Cambridge native, broke past Larrieu Smith in the final straightaway at the Indiana University Stadium, but the elder statesman of America's female distance runners kicked past the Crimson star in the final 10 meters to take the tape...