Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goods salesman, manager of the Russian American Co., chartered in 1799 by Russia's Emperor Paul. Ordered to promote discovery, commerce and agriculture and to propagate Christianity, Baranof virtually ruled Alaska for 20-odd years. Through his trading company, which was to Alaska what Hudson's Bay Co. was to Canada, Baranof ably enhanced Russia's claim to the territory by organizing the country, setting up trade relations with England, the U.S. and Spain, and turning Sitka itself into a glittering, sophisticated Russian colony...
...century, Argentina's navy fired in anger at a foreign target-maybe. President Arturo Frondizi called a press conference at the Casa Rosada to announce the news. The President disclosed that an Argentine squadron had sighted a periscope while on fleet exercises in Golfo Nuevo, a quiet Patagonian bay, and carried out four depth-charge attacks when the sub ignored the warning to surface as required by international...
...Swift-running Lincoln Road, the honest little dark bay colt that made his reputation running second to Tim Tarn in both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, finally ran in front all the way. Without Calumet's killer to catch him in the last furlong, Lincoln Road fought off determined opposition to stay ahead of the field from flagfall to finish in Garden State's $59,100 Jersey Stakes, whipped Ada L. Rice's Talent Show by a safe length and a quarter...
...also customary to give a degree to some foreign statesman, and inside sources reveal that this year Pierre Pflimlin, who according to rumor will be "vacationing in the Bay State in early June," will be honored...
...When he turned into the stretch at Pimlico's horse park. Calumet's
dark bay colt Tim Tam saw racing room ahead, ran like a thief and stole
the $133,950 Preakness from Sunny Blue Farm's Lincoln Road by a long
length and a half. The weather was fine, the track was fast, and when
Silky Sullivan, the California clown, clumped home eighth, he had no
excuses. The truth was out: the Western hotshot is an Eastern
horselaugh.