Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While his first building was being put up, Starr and his first two pupils slept in a hayloft near by. Soon he was getting 1,000 applicants a year. Most were sent by judges, after being tried for such crimes as robbery, assault, attempted murder and rape. The rest were problem boys whose parents could no longer handle them...
...Writers my generation mostly dead except Dos Passes, going very good with Number One. Robert Penn Warren writing very well. First rate books by new writers that have read are All Thy Conquests, Alfred Hayes-Never Come Morning, Nelson Algren-The Big Sky, A. B. Guthrie Jr.-The Assault, Allen R. Matthews...
...field of seven paraded to the post for last week's running of the $100,000 International Gold Cup, first truly international race of the air age on U.S. turf, Assault was a 1-to-2 favorite. As usual he got away slowly, and so did Stymie, who was third in the betting (at 5-to-1). A 25-to-1 shot named Natchez went to the front, with the two Latins on his heels...
...three-quarter pole, Assault was 17 lengths behind the pace-setting Natchez, who liked the sloppy going, and Stymie was five lengths behind Assault. Coming into the stretch, it happened. A couple of mud-spattered horses seemed to pull away from the other trailers. From the finish line the leader looked like Assault, and cheers went up from the crowd. Actually, it was Stymie. He had overtaken Assault, and with thundering strides passed him. Then he took after Natchez and beat him by a neck at the finish of the 1⅜ mile grind...
...Stymie's 28th and greatest win in 106 starts, earned him $73,000. For the second time in two weeks, Hirsch Jacobs' rags-to-riches chestnut (he was picked up for $1,500 in a selling race) had replaced Assault as the world's top money-winning ($678,510) race horse...