Word: bred
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Trainer Jones, 57, needs all the nickels and dimes he can get these days. Calumet, which bred two Triple Crown winners, Whirlaway and Citation, won the Kentucky Derby seven times,* more than any other stable in history, and swept the money-winning championship twelve times in 21 years, has not even entered a horse in the Derby since 1958. At Santa Anita, Hialeah and Belmont, Calumet's proud champions were once hailed as "the New York Yankees of horse racing." No more...
...Johnson of Alabama [Feb. 21]: enough has been said of the irresponsible leaders of the South who would appease a screaming minority of white racists simply to further their own political ambitions. It is time the national press expended more energy in extolling the virtues of men born and bred in the South who have a decent and abiding respect for the law of the land. Surely there must be more men whose voices are rendered inaudible by extremists...
...Favorite Sport? tries to capture the spirit of madcap comedy but turns out to be mostly old hat. As an ace sporting-goods salesman at the San Francisco emporium of Abercrombie & Fitch, Rock Hudson plays the kind of city-bred softie who can't bear to eat a fish, much less catch one. But when Publicist Paula Prentiss proposes that he represent Abercrombie's in the Lake Wakapoogee fishing tournament, it's either go to Wakapoogee or lose the job. Braving the enameled wilderness devised by Producer-Director Howard Hawks, Rock soon finds himself...
...enterprise system has bred an underground elite: the hard-to-find specialists who can make brand-new shoes wearable, alter off-the-peg suits and dresses so that they have a semblance of style, or give a broken appliance the "provisional" treatment, as the Russians call their intuitive knack for makeshift repairs...
Poodles were In once, but of course their popularity put an end to that. Inmost at present, at least with show folk, is the Yorkshire terrier, a minuscule puff of fierce fluff, first bred by sporting Yorkshiremen about 100 years ago to fight to the death with rats of equal size. These days Yorkies are more likely to be found in the arms of the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, June Havoc, Billy Wilder, Billy Rose, Sandra Dee and Fannie Hurst. But there are 2,592 Yorkshire terriers registered in the U.S.-a bit many...