Word: bluegrass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Returning to Washington, the delegation carried Ike's word to a meeting of the full committee. By acclamation, tall, trim (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.) Thruston Morton, 51, was elected, summoned to make his maiden speech. Said the new boss from the Bluegrass: "In 1960 we are going to have proven champions carrying our banner. We are going to have proven stake winners. There'll be no selling platers in our barn...
Take Yvonne De Carlo-a feat that is simplicity itself according to the script. Raised as a white belle amidst Kentucky's bluegrass, she learns that her mamma was a Negro, and she is hauled off to be knocked down for $5,000 at a New Orleans slave auction. Her gallant buyer: an aging Rhett Butler, again played by Clark Gable (under the assumed name of Hamish Bond...
...horse to beat in the 82nd running of the Kentucky Derby. But they all had their doubts. The big bay colt had won his big races this spring in his home state, where he got a 5-lb. native-son weight advantage. There was also an old bluegrass-and-julep tradition : "No horse whose name begins with 'N' can win a Derby." None ever had; Native Dancer, the favorite, was nosed out in '53; last year Nashua, the favorite, was whipped...
Deep in the Bluegrass section of Kentucky, "nestling in the foothills of the Cumberlands," sits the quiet town of Danville (pop. 10,000) and tiny Centre College (enrollment 417; male, 250.) Back in 1921 Centre was even smaller; its total student body numbered about 200. Of the 31 men who came out for football in that year, however, Coach Charley Moran fashioned a team that became a gridiron power in the East. On October 29, in Harvard Stadium, his Colonels came out of their half-time prayer meeting to beat the Crimson, 6 to 0, in one of the most...
Even on Kentucky bluegrass our heifers merely rear on front legs, click hind hooves . . . What crazy grass was Irvington Roamiss Pear reared...