Word: ben
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how good is Coaltown? Bookmakers had already made him No. 2 in the Kentucky Derby winter book. Said Trainer Ben Jones, casually: "A nice colt, but he hasn't had the experience. Citation is the greatest horse in the country." No man to hedge his bets, Ben also trains Citation, the even-money favorite to win Kentucky's greatest horse race...
...staircase and trying to stop the ball on the tenth step. They were slick, big (sometimes calling for 100-ft. putts) and agonizingly full of dips, bumps and slopes. Even South Africa's Bobby Locke, regarded as today's best putter, moaned over them, and went astray. Ben Hogan blew up on the third round. But "tournament soft" Claude Harmon played...
...turn at the family steering wheel. Out of his Lincoln-Mercury Motor Division he rolled two sleek new low-slung cars-the 1949 model Lincolns. The Ford Motor Co., first of the Big Three to make radical body changes in all its cars, had spent $90 million doing it. Ben Ford's Lincolns were the first models unwrapped...
...Britain in mid-February had been rather welcome. Said a toothless Suffolk fanner: "The crops were coming up too fast. The snow put 'em to sleep. Now, unless a May frost comes along to stab us in the back, there'll be a bumper." Sheep Raiser Ben Alderson of Kerry, Montgomeryshire, had a bumper already; one of his ewes had just produced five lambs, a circumstance considered remarkable enough to be recorded in the stately Times...
...Jews seemed dead set on fighting. The Jewish Agency announced that it would proceed with the establishment of a Jewish government in Palestine. Said the Agency Executive Chairman David Ben-Gurion: "It is we who will decide the fate of Palestine. . . . The Jewish state exists because we defend...