Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell, tension mounted around the moonlit road blocks. From Sherbrooke, 40 miles away, word came that a heavily armed force of Provincial Police was mobilizing. Strikers made more rigid searches of every car coming down the highways. Near midnight, all hands left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy.") At a union meeting...
Trainer Ben Jones is as thorough as he is wily, especially when preparing one of his Calumet Farm horses for a big race like the Kentucky Derby. He always insists on his jockey being around for days in advance to get the feel of the horse, and to study the strategy that is planned...
...himself, more excited than after Citation's victory last year, forgot his limp as he hotfooted it down the track to meet Ponder jogging back to the presentation stand. The 66-year-old training wizard from Parnell, Mo., a genius at getting a horse ready for one big race, had the look of a man who had fooled even himself. Said little Conn McCreary, who finished fifth aboard Halt: "When the day comes around, he makes you look like a sucker...
Fame and money (about $10,000 this year) haven't made much difference in Campy's style of living. With his wife Ruthe and four children (two of them girls) he lives in a white clapboard house in St. Albans, Queens, goes in for big plates of Ruthe's spaghetti, gets to bed most nights by 10 p.m. and is up by 6 a.m.: "In my house," he says, "you got to keep regular hours. The baby, Roy Jr., he's up by then and hittin' the bottle...
Most meteors are small, pea-size to walnut-size things that get their brilliance from their enormous speed. Only a few are big enough to reach the earth's surface before they evaporate. Once in a great while, a really big meteor smacks the earth with a vast concussion, digging an "explosion crater" like the one near Canyon Diablo, Ariz. Such craters are rare. Unless the meteor hits in an arid region, its dent is smoothed down quickly (in terms of geological time) by erosion and other natural forces...