Word: startingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...outside, far from traffic and the soft footing on the rail as the 13-horse field battled into the back stretch. With one-half mile to go, Vasquez made his move, gave the filly her head, and she swooped into the lead just as she reached the start of the home stretch. Running freely, fluidly, the big, lovely chestnut required just three taps of the whip to hold off Rumbo's late charge...
...Republican or Democrat, and doesn't always vote. "I'm not totally pleased if people find me more trustworthy than others-that's what we're all about in this business," he says. Besides, the trustworthiness is in the impartiality: "As soon as you start to delineate your positions, you'd start to lose them. Another factor: I know I can't make compromises to suit the people that would put me up, that I'd have taken money from." Even so, he is tempted. Unlike most political reporters he thinks campaigning...
That difference, the author steadily and hearteningly reminds her readers, is in the end worth all the prior trauma and trouble. To have a baby, she urges, read what you will and then do what seems best. What seems best is to start by reading Cole and heeding her sound counsel. To live with the baby, she says, "savor every morsel of motherhood as it comes along...
...track events got off to a strong start as Harvard's quartet of Joe Salvo, marc Chapus, Bennett Midlo, and Peter Nsiah had little trouble dispatching Yale in the 400-meter relay. The trailing Elis were mericifully disqualified for an illegal handoff in the last...
However, Raymond said yesterday that the biggest change was one of attitude, one the varsity made on its own: "The Tuesday after the MIT race, the guys just decided to start really rowing. What's impressed me is how much of the work they've done on their...