Word: bred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lodge from an orphanage she aided in Saigon. The Lodges couldn't spell the breed name of the pups-Lhasa Apso. But a quick look at their genealogy showed they had the makings of ideal companions in such uncertain spots as Saigon. The intelligent, sharp-eared dogs were bred in the lamaseries around the sacred city of Lhasa, teamed with the fierce Tibetan mastiff as watch dogs. The mastiffs were chained outside while the small dogs were indoor sentinels. Only trouble is, neither Buster Brown nor Rover Boy is housebroken...
...musical chairs (violin, viola, celesta, piano, organ and percussions) before he founded the open-air Esplanade Concerts in 1929 and began luring up to 20,000 persons across the Arthur Fiedler Bridge to the banks of the Charles River for free concerts. In 1930 he became the first Boston-bred conductor of the Pops...
...scrawled on subway station walls. Civil rights leaders and police insisted it was not a campaign organized by racist Negroes. N.A.A.C.P. President Roy Wilkins declared that subway terrorists did not attack from "purely racial motivations," but he added: "Part of the context in which these Negro delinquents are bred is indeed bitterness and frustration, which all Negroes feel at the continued denial of equal opportunity everywhere and at the unpunished beatings and killings of Negroes, which continue to feature the civil rights theme in the Deep South." At midweek, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner said grimly...
...Three. But try and tell that to the fans. On race day, 61,215 of them-biggest crowd in the Belmont's 96 years-were in the stands, and Northern Dancer, at 4 to 5, was clearly the people's choice. Why not? The Canadian-bred colt had won the Derby and Preakness with ease. The only thing against him was history. At H mi., the Belmont is the longest of the Triple Crown races, and in the 15 years since Citation, odds-on favorites have lost seven times. Two, like the Dancer, were trying for a triple...
What about Northern Dancer, E. P. Taylor's Canadian-bred colt that won the Derby? Lucky, they said. Too small, they said. On the day of the race, the New York Journal-American published its handicappers' selections, and only one out of twelve picked the Dancer to win. The Morning Telegraph was only slightly more encouraging: one out of eight. A well-known trainer went so far as to predict that Northern Dancer "won't even be on the board when the race is over...