Word: lapped
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Lake moved out two yards ahead of the pack early on, proceeding to box in the other runners and establish a snailish 2:80 pace at mid-point. Annoyed by his opponent's unwillingness to push, Dixon pulled out 15 yards ahead when the gun sounded for the bell lap and Lake's attempt to repeat his just-by-an-inch defeat of Dixon two years ago collapsed abysmally...
When he took the baton, the Crimson foursome faced a half-lap deficit to the Brown team. As 200 spectators rose to their feet amid wild cheering and clapping, Dixon poured it on and passed the Brown anchor man within one quarter of a mile to finish a third of a lap ahead...
...blood pressure 120/68. He has varicose veins that require no treatment, and a high-frequency hearing loss in both ears for which he does not need a hearing aid. He sleeps seven hours a night and is an avid swimmer, trying to squeeze in a 50-lap session each day. In 1974 Anderson was diagnosed as having mitral valve prolapse, a slight deformation of one of the four valves of the heart. The condition, not generally dangerous, is thought to be shared by up to 15% of Americans, but it produces a distinct heart noise, and so is known...
...climb one wall, do the monkey bars, go feet first through a tire, do the parallel bars, leap another wall, take more monkey bars, climb a rope, carry a medicine ball around a 1/12 of a mile track, do the same with a baton and run a final half-lap. All in three minutes and 41 seconds. If you don't pass, you do it again...
...report left the question unresolved, many Biology professors said this week, by dumping it into the lap of the new associate dean...