Related Clues:

• Avoided bloodshed
• Put one's nose to the grindstone
• Sought a seat, perhaps
• Wasn't exactly brave
• Legged it
• Tried the track
• Governed
• Kurosawa masterpiece
• Trotted
•     Took off
• Dashed off
• Bled in the laundry
• Entered the marathon
• Administered
• Galloped