Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slowdown. The clock that keeps running in Arcaro's head really rang the bell four years ago in the Manhattan Handicap. Arcaro was on Devil Diver, a speed horse. Everybody, including the other jockeys, expected him to set a fast pace, and then collapse long before the mile and a half had been run. Arcaro knew how slow he was going; the others didn't and hung back too. The time for the first mile was incredibly slow. When Arcaro finally let Devil Diver run, he outsprinted the others, winning by 1½ lengths...
Next day 70 kids went on strike, parading in front of the school with large posters demanding that the school board resign. Parents begged them to stop. Wispy Miss Inez Wallace, the school principal, stood in the doorway frantically ringing her school bell. The kids ignored both parents and principal. They wrote a letter to the State Board of Education: "We are Americans, and we have some rights...
...Helen Choate Bell Prize will be divided between Stanley J. Friedman '48 of Brooklyn, New York and Adams House and Cyrus I. Harvey, Jr. '47 of Boston and Winthrop House. Friedman submitted an essay entitled "Theodore Dreiser and the Dispossessed," while Harvey's was entitled "Winesburg, Ohio: A Reinterpretation...
...Milwaukee's smoky Auditorium, the rumbling shouts rose to a roar. The crowd was clamoring for the kill. Jackie Darthard, a promising 18-year-old Negro middleweight,* was down twice in the third round. At the bell, he stumbled woozily to his corner. To test his reactions, his manager threw questions at him quickly. "What's ya name. . . What town we in. . . What round is it?" Darthard muttered: "Cut out the jive, I'll get this guy." The guy he had to get was 160-lb. Bert Lytell, also a Negro and more noted for shiftiness than...
...were traveling in it exchanged whispered secrets, he heard every word. He was deaf to the shrillest birdsong-unless it came over his particular amplifying system, the phonograph. He could hear the sharp dots & dashes of the telegraph transmitter, but he couldn't hear a word over Mr. Bell's primitive new telephone-until he took it in hand and helped make a more efficient instrument...