Word: backes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Portland school board had other evidence. A mother wrote in to describe what had happened to her son on Hell Night. "He hardly looked human. He was covered with blood, molasses and sawdust, and was shaking with spasms ... He was covered with red marks across his back and buttocks, the latter broken in many places and swollen . . . His teeth chattered so that he could not talk...
...presses were waiting; this week thousands of Texans in & out of Wharton County were eating up Sheriff Lane's rambling, ungrammatical but engrossing tale. A low ceiling, reported Pilot Buckshot, had forced him to turn back after his take-off in the "People's Airplane," the $5,800 Stinson Station Wagon that his admiring readers and constituents bought him last year. Undaunted, Sheriff Lane switched to a car, followed a 300-mile trail to the store where he seized the stolen machines. Like an accomplished serial writer, Buckshot hoped that by the next installment he might also seize...
...Glisson's first spill since four horses piled up in the stretch at Belmont Park last June. That day, with one jockey hurt and two others stunned, he walked calmly back to the jockeys' room where an excited doctor exclaimed: "That was a pretty bad spill." Glisson, dirty and dusty, stared at the doc with cold, blue eyes and said matter-of-factly: "I've seen worse." At 18, he has the kind of unshakable coolness that makes him a standout among the hard-boiled little men he rides against...
...track near Omaha. He struck his stride last winter at Santa Anita, where Oldtimer Eddie Arcaro decided during a race one day that the kid needed taking down a notch. Said Arcaro later: "I rode up even with him and looked him in the eye. He looked right back at me, cold as you please-and first thing I knew I'd been beaten." Glisson won the $100,000-added Santa Anita Derby on Old Rockport, became the long-shot darling of the California bettors, then moved on to Kentucky and eventually New York...
...Thursday. On that momentous day, by decree of state law and with the State Fair as a backdrop, Clemson College (enrollment 3,200) fights it out on the football field with the University of South Carolina (enrollment 4,000). As usual last week, schools closed down and politicians scurried back from Washington as citizens began working themselves into the mood for the 47th annual battle...