Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fight against materialism seemed to have real ized that material security and social justice had to be achieved under the West's own principles of liberty and individual dignity. Where they were defeated at the polls, Communists in France and Slovakia (see below) prepared to carry on their assault by other means...
Nobody had a good word for Assault, but he had a way of winning. Red-faced Max Hirsch, his trainer, complained to newsmen: "If you had a horse that won the Derby and the Preakness, wouldn't you say he was a pretty fair horse?" Most of the 43,599 people who streamed out last week to watch the $100,000 Belmont Stakes apparently didn't think so yet. Elizabeth Arden Graham's moody Lord Boswell, which had already lost two of horse racing's Big Three to Assault, was the favorite again...
Belmont's mile-and-a-half is a long grind; the starting pace was slow. Jockey Warren Mehrtens, up on Assault, had orders to hold him back until Lord Boswell made his move. Jockey Mehrtens dutifully obeyed for a mile, decided he could wait no longer, and set out for the leaders. Assault overtook them in the home stretch, finished three lengths ahead. His winning time (2:30 4/5) was nothing sensational, but the victory put the Texas-bred horse into racing's select seven that have won All Three.* It also made Assault the 13th biggest prizewinner...
Halfway down Pimlico's home stretch, it looked like the 'Kentucky Derby all over again. Assault, the clubfooted chestnut that ran away with the Kentucky Derby, was three lengths outin front. Then Elizabeth Arden Graham's slow-starting Lord Boswell came charging up. At the finish, Assault, obviously tiring, was just a neck ahead-enough to earn the $99,120 first prize. On the record, Assault was the best of 1946's three-year-olds, but his Preakness winning time (2:01 2/5) was the slowest in 13 years. Ten years before, Assault's daddy...
...closest. Elizabeth Arden Graham's even-money entry finished out of the money. Knockdown ran out of gas after seven furlongs; Lord Boswell, with usually shrewd Eddie Arcaro up, twice ran into pockets on the backstretch. This week's $100,000 Preakness at Baltimore would tell whether Assault was really that good...