Word: aqueducts
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...From here on out," Mrs. Penny Tweedy remarked a few days before the Wood Memorial Stakes at Aqueduct, "it's Turns and Rolaids." There seemed to be no grounds for nervous indigestion. After all, Tweedy's three-year-old colt Secretariat was heavily favored to win the Wood as a prelude to collecting the roses at the Kentucky Derby this week. But Secretariat faltered inexplicably and finished a mediocre third behind Angle Light and Sham. Suddenly this Saturday's contest at Churchill Downs shapes up as more of a horse race than the smart money had previously...
...write you to explain my views on the crucial debate on Black Rock Forest. I believe much is at stake here: not only the beauty of the Hudson Highlands, the threats to the New York fisheries, the possible contamination of the Catskill Aqueduct, the air pollution caused by power plants working to bring water up Storm King, the possibility of the town of Cornwall being flooded by a break in the reservoir: besides all this, I fear that Harvard's reputation is at stake as well...
...concern over ecological damage. It notes that economic feasibility of the project involves the questionable construction of two other power plants currently stalled in legal action, and that without these facilities serious increases in air pollution could occur. It notes New York City's concern that the Catskill aqueduct, which supplies 40 per cent of the city's water, might be damaged by the project. It notes that the public safety could be endangered by the proposed dam, and that its rupture could inundate half the town of Cornwall. It notes the possible destruction of large portions of the striped...
...money. His marriage goes, his career more or less disintegrates, but the "action" remains. Gambling - worked at, lovingly labored over, the Morning Telegraph studied with a Talmudic precision - becomes the last pure arena of sheer individualistic intellect: the mind in combat with the odds. Guetti's scenes at Aqueduct and Monmouth Park, at craps tables and poker parties, have a tense authenticity. Thousands of dollars roll in and out with a blind, tidal rhythm. Meantime, Hatcher's wife, already effectively widowed, drifts off to find a life outside of her husband's elaborate and demanding fantasies...
...establishment, and Machine Gun Jack McGurn administered a lesson in loyalty that left Lewis with a fractured skull. Suffering from brain damage, Lewis underwent years of therapy before fully regaining his speech. By the late 1930s he was back on top of the saloon circuit. A fixture at Aqueduct as well as the Copa and the Las Vegas Strip, he was traditionally joined by his audiences in shouting "Post time!" before each of the several drinks he downed during a performance...