Word: straightaways
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...stumbling through a filed somewhere behind the back straightaway when my stomach begins to implode. No sleep for 48 hours: none anticipated anytime soon. Tacos and unchilled Budweisers' swimming in midair. This is The Race...
...stands, grinning lopsidedly, the whiff of mischief strong. Straightaway, he needles his too earnest competitor from Rhode Island College (who had, after all, just called Kidd an "obnoxious fool"). "Yes, I saw last night," Kidd says, "the hideous goings-on between my honorable opponent and the lady he mentioned in his opening arguments. Is it any wonder that he would have us accept an argument that leads only to suicidal hopelessness?" The R.I.C. man, still jaunty, hums a bar of Feelings. The judge shouts, "You're losing it, Kidd!" Catcalls are tossed out promiscuously ("Lies! Lies!"), and as Kidd...
Haster assumed his familiar stand-up, straightaway stance. Finnegan wound up and brought in a fastball, letter-high and inside. It was to be his first and only mistake of the game as Haster's blast sailed over the leftfielder's head and rolled down a hill to a neighboring set of practice fields...
...race was close if slow for the first three miles over sluggish Moakley Golf Course. But as the harriers descended into Cornell's famed gorge, Harvard began to pull ahead. Finally, with manager Sue Barton screaming him on, sophomore Bruce Weber sprinted the last 500 yards of straightaway, passing Cornell's Harv Robinson to gain his first varsity victory ever...
...Henry Salvatoris (oil). Says Grace Salvatori: "He has a great sense of color and quality. The night Ted Graber has finished, everything is complete, right down to the flowers and bonbons on the tables. Your husband comes in and he's happy, and you can sit down straightaway and have a cocktail...