Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Humberto Mariles, who captains the world's greatest riding team (TIME, Nov. 15, 1948), gallantly announced that "when teams are so equally matched, it is 99% luck." Then he proceeded to show that it was just about 99% skill. For three afternoons and evenings the Mexican team walked away with every military trophy; six times the band played Mexico's national anthem in token of another victory for the visitors...
...help while away off-duty hours with the Royal Navy's Mediterranean Fleet, the Duke of Edinburgh got a present from home: his yacht, the Cowslip, which arrived in Malta by aircraft carrier...
...part of British critics. "It may perhaps be taken as a guarantee of ... authenticity," the London Times opined, ". . . that his pictures are extraordinarily minute and precise in execution; they resemble nothing so much as patches of an old wall on which successive layers of wallpaper have mouldered away...
Guardedly optimistic, the U.S. Public Health Service considers malaria licked as a public health menace, but it is still "a sleeping giant." Says PHS's Dr. Robert M. Coatney: "We shouldn't do away with our police force. As soon as we relax, it will come back...
This is only one of the stories Aussies tell about the twomile, hell-for-leather cup race that is now far & away the biggest sporting event of teh Australian year. In 1930, when bookies were faced with bankruptcy if Phar Lap won, a car pulled up near the great horse after a workout and a rifle cracked several times. The bullets did not touch Phar Lap (and he ran and won). But in 1941 a horse name El Golea was shot by gamblers who had mistaken him for a stablemate, the red-hot Melbourne Cup favorite, Beau Vite...