Word: breds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...start the money-raising ball rolling. All summer, carpenters and masons have pounded nails and poured concrete to convert the colonial farmhouses for college use. For weeks an advance party of prospective Marlboro students has been working too. That is part of the Hendricks idea: at Marlboro, city-bred students will learn to use their hands: raise pigs, tap maple trees, make their own skis...
...influence of these cynics is increased by the traditional American faith in the infallibility of the written word. Our Constitutional experience has bred a belief that once an organization has been set up, and its rules put on paper, things will practically run themselves. But events in the U.N. are demonstrating that the problem of maintaining peace is more than just finding the magic formula and writing it into the law of nations. The struggle for peace and security is a continuing one. The next few months may well be crucial in the formation of the public opinion that will...
...bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band of Moslems who mistook him for a Hindu and wanted to kill him. He finally convinced them that he was a Roman Catholic by showing his crucifix and answering some questions about the Bible put by a mission-bred Moslem...
Strange reports had come from the workouts at Belmont Park. The bred-in-Argentina halfbrothers, Endeavor II and Ensueno, were being ridden without saddles, their peon exercise boys astride nothing more comforting than white sheets. Clockers and rival trainers were impressed: those dark bays were moving faster in their morning trials than many good horses travel during their afternoon races...
That sum might soon be sundae-money to Vic Damone. Like Crooners Sinatra, Perry Como and the late Russ Columbo, Vic is of Italian descent-and he managed to be born & bred in Brooklyn. He has shrewd management and the shyest little catty-cornered grin that ever melted the lipstick off a teenager. He also has a full, lyrical baritone, trimmed with a sense of phrase that Sinatra might envy if it were not so much like his own. Says Vic: "I try to tell a story. I never sing a song the same way twice...