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...Aaah." The minimum purse for a standard allowance or claiming race at Aqueduct ($3,500) has not been raised in 20 years simply because the tracks cannot afford to; by law they are nonprofit operations, and all they do is break even. In those same 20 years, the basic cost of keeping a race horse in training has gone up from $8 per day to as much as $22 per day. In addition, every time a veterinarian makes his horse say "Aaah," the owner shells out $25; blacksmiths get $18 for putting on a pair of horseshoes, jockeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Big Balk at the Big A | 4/14/1967 | See Source »

...most thrilling experiences of my life to watch a character being made at the same time an actress is reaching her own stature." Samantha remembers it otherwise: "I guess I was supposed to feel trapped, and I did. I lost about ten pounds. Wyler loved it. 'Aaah,' he said. 'You're wasting away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Wyler's Wiles | 6/18/1965 | See Source »

With a gun at her back, she staggered upstairs, showed them it wasn't in the jewel box. The thugs spotted a 300-lb. safe, told her to open it. "I can't," she wept. "Take it." She knew the ring was in the safe. "Aaah, how can I carry a 300-lb. safe?" the gunman asked in disgust. The pair emptied her jewel box, locked Sayde and the maid in a closet and beat it. Sayde wound up in a hospital with a fractured skull. The crooks' heist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Moe the Gonif | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...evening good Coblenzers jammed the Deutsches Eck again. Hoarse with jubilation and flush with beer they stared upward at floodlighted Fortress Ehren-breitstein, went "Aaah!" as rockets and bombshells burst in pyrotechnic brilliance. After the performance busy police turned thousands from the main road home, directed them to a narrow swaying pontoon bridge between Deutsches Eck and the mainland. Came a harplike twanging of strained metal, the bridge lurched, settled in the water. Children screamed, whimpered. Before morning 40 bluish stiff bodies were fished from the yellow waters. Six-year-old Raymond Lawler of Akron. Ohio, went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: In the Corner | 8/4/1930 | See Source »

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