Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnny Kelley, the 1957 winner. > No Robbery: the $90,800 Wood Memorial, at New York's Aqueduct race track. Taking command at the start of the 1⅛-mile race, the undefeated bay colt belonging to Mrs. Joan Whitney Payson, owner of the oft-defeated New York Mets, bore out on the stretch turn, still romped to a two-length victory that ran his record to five straight, stamped him as a strong contender-along with Rex Ellsworth's Candy Spots and Harry Guggenheim's Never Bend-for next week's Kentucky Derby...
...Madagascar. The list includes gamblers, adulterers, ex-convicts -all seeking peace of mind. With it, they get an awful lot of exercise. The procession, chuckles Father Scuitti, "is no evening promenade." In last week's mock trip to Calvary, a short, fat man grunted and puffed as he bore the cross along a mile-and-a-half route. Coming out of the church, the Catenacciu got his huge load stuck in the doorway. Then, as he stumbled along dirt paths and darkened, cobbled streets, struggled painfully up flights of ancient granite stairs, his bare feet began to bleed. Throngs...
...observers were stealing no secrets; they were checking on their own work. The bright gleam of infra-red light that they had seen through the snooperscope bore out their suspicion that they had stumbled on a new and revolutionary kind of communication device...
...easy but remarkably correct explanations of current work in various fields. In simplifying essential concepts, he consistently avoids that major pitfall of the popularizer, losing the basic meaning of the concepts to the field. Were he any simpler, he would be inaccurate; if he were more technical, he would bore and confuse most of his readers. Clarke has drawn a fine and sure line between the two hazards of his work...
...stumped by the bright, mysterious bodies. What was causing all the radio noise? Even photographs of the stars' spectra-all the wave lengths of emitted light, from red to violet-were no help. A star's spectrum is its individual signature, but none of these five spectra bore any resemblance to the spectrum of any other star...