Word: bay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burly, tattooed man named George H. Akins, who had been arrested by the police after some disorderly conduct. As he stood trial in City Judge Doyle's court, his eight-year-old daughter standing beside him began to cry, anguished by the spectacle of her father at bay. The man saw the child's distress, reached out one hand and smoothed down her blonde bangs, pulled out a handkerchief and began to mop her eyes. Suddenly a look of pain broke across his face. "I didn't go out there to cause any trouble," he blurted...
...Round Table, the Kerr Stables' bay colt, had to run all the way to make off with the fifth annual $100,000 United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City. After stumbling at the starting gate, Round Table responded to a hard drive, held off Tudor Era by a whisker and scored his eighth straight victory...
...early years of the last century, when the continent was turned into a British penal colony (a direct consequence of the American Revolution, after which British convicts could no longer be transported to the American Colonies). In short order, the very names of New South Wales and Botany Bay were enough to send a shiver up the spine of a London pickpocket or Galway poacher. In a brilliant fictionalized reconstruction of this period, Irish Artist-Writer Robert Gibbings has produced that most ingratiating of books-a tragedy with a happy ending...
Returning to Kingston, Jamaica's capital, from a one-day outing at northwest-coast Montego Bay. 1,500 passengers aboard a Jamaica Government Railway excursion train were variously weary, tipsy, sleepy and raucous. Jammed into twelve ancient wooden coaches and two freight cars, they braced themselves against the sway; some slept in the baggage racks. Then, at the top of a long downhill run in the mountainous central part of the island, the brakes failed...
Using this program, New York City Builder S. J. Lefrak is putting up a cooperative development in Brooklyn's Sheepshead Bay district with a monthly carrying charge averaging $21 a room. When Lefrak's office opened to receive applications, his staff was greeted by 600 people who had stayed in line through the night; in one day he leased 3,800 apartments...