Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...toward Soviet Studies in the 30s, searching for alternatives to capitalism. He attended the City College of New York at night and in the late 30s was an organizer for the shipping clerks union. White-haired, soft-spoken and reasonable, he seems the center's representative of the depression-bred Jewish radical, now gentled by time and more liberal: the Commentary intellectual, before those types talked against welfare and for invading the Arabs...
...time it took to read the previous paragraph, the world's richest horse race was over. The million-dollar quarter-mile All-American Futurity, run last week at Ruidoso Downs, N. Mex., was won in exactly 21.98 sec. As the ultimate sprint for quarter horses−cowboy mounts bred for brief bursts of speed, often by crossbreeding with thoroughbreds−the Futurity yielded an opulent purse of no less than $330,000 to the winner, a fat 58% more than the $209,600 first prize at the Kentucky Derby. Even the tenth horse, which was scratched, collected...
...father and son often settle down in the private study off the Oval Office and discuss everything from matters of state to whether or not to breed the family's female golden retriever, Liberty. (The decision: the dog has been flown to Oregon to be bred with a record-holding stud.) Properly minimizing his influence, Jack sums up his role with typical Ford realism and restraint: "All I can do is open up ideas to him, and maybe have an effect that...
Grayhaired Doxiadis was dapper, shrewd and brisk-a silver fox of a man who was equally at home designing mud-brick houses for Zambian peasants or diagramming his thoughts (with multicolored felt-tip pens) for Western intellectuals. He was born in 1913 of Greek parents in Bulgaria, was bred and educated in Athens, and earned a graduate degree in Berlin. His talent shone early: at 23 he became Athens' top town planner; at 25 he was chief of regional planning for all Greece. Then came World War II (Doxiadis was a Resistance hero) and after...
...their day, not because of strong national sentiment but rather because of a host of other factors: the extended British lines, the aid of the French, the unorthodox modes of American warfare, the ingenious makeshifts and improvisations of American commanders who had not had the advantage of being bred in a rigid European military etiquette (Americans would actually fight at night, in the woods and on rainy days), and the steadfast, courageous leadership of George Washington. In retrospect it might be more accurate to say that the British lost, than that the Americans...