Word: belmont
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three and a half years made good collectively and individually and for the remaining half year made good in two-thirds effectives as one third beat a hasty retreat from the closing in of academic indescretion. Hynes, Corkey, McManama, rugged as the names imply, a Cambridge-Arlington-Belmont triumvirate which irrepressibly and forcefully peppered opposing netmen with a destructive machine-gun fusillade of goals and attempts, full and deadly, carrying the Crimson ice fortunes to wide and expansive successes, mounting attack after attack, coiling and recoiling with the relentless regularity of a blind and savage dog against an alien cage...
...market's open every Friday and Saturday, but Friday crowds are different from Saturday crowds. On Fridays, the Haymarket is an outdoor grocery store for middle-class Belmont housewives. Saturday is the day for everyone else. Prices are cheapter, shoppers are wilder, and haggling...
...Federal government has stopped giving money for housing. Such subsidies can only come from taxpayers. And why would they pay for these, especially when some of these persons would be excluded from riverside housing by quotas for the poor? So these persons will continue to move away, to Belmont, to Newton, to Weston, and Cambridge will become more and more of a "homogeneous city" of poor, with a few small enclaves around Brattle Street and the Norton woods where Harvard professors live. Yet if housing on the river were priced at full market value, Cambridge would get increasing tax revenues...
...This letter will be postmarked before the running of the Belmont. Secretariat will lose, I am sorry to say, because he has just appeared on the cover of TIME...
Campo and the 69,138 fans who packed Belmont Park last week saw Secretariat put that old question to rest once and forever. As expected, Secretariat and Sham staged an early head-to-head duel. Then, with his long, beautifully rhythmic strides, Secretariat began to pull away. First it was by one length, then five, then ten. Coming into the stretch, Jockey Ron Turcotte did not bother to go to the whip as Secretariat poured it on. When he crossed the finish line, he had won by an incredible 31 lengths, the largest winning margin in the history...