Word: breeding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once wagered $100,000 on him at 1-to-100, and picked up an easy $1,000. Big Red's owner, Pennsylvanian Sam Riddle, once refused a $1,000,000 offer for his wonder horse. Riddle retired him to stud in the prime of his career. "Improving the breed," now a worn-penny phrase spoken cynically around the tracks, had meaning in Man o' War's case. Only the choicest mares were bred to Man o' War-at $5,000 a try. The results were top quality, as with everything...
...this society, stable enough to breed 400 million men, is decomposed, then forces outside the peoples of India, not within them, must be to blame...
...participate in significant and generally amusing incidents that are friendly even when they show the Bostonians' aplomb in a seamy or mundane light. Mr. Amory does not commit the error of falling into satire, nor does he treat his subject with the glazed veneration that a member of the breed might easily have done. Instead, in the chapter entitled "Change and Status Quo," he sums up the pros and cons of having such a group, and indicates the transformations that time has wrought...
...many mutations stored away in the human species. They were caused by natural agents, such as cosmic rays striking through the sex organs. But man-made agents can cause mutations faster. Last year, Professor Muller won a Nobel prize for proving that X rays beamed through fruit flies can breed a crop of monstrosities (TIME, Nov.11...
...Turns His Back." He fought, for the first time in years, a Miura bull-a large, fierce breed, not suited to Manolete's specialty. Spaniards say: "A matador who turns his back on a Miura is a dead matador." Manolete drew the Miura through the sanguinary dance in the sand. As he drove the sword into the bull, one of the horns tore into Manolete's groin...