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Word: bronco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coach Paul Brown's Browns didn't let a little snow get in the way of their march to an undefeated season. The Buffalo Bills were understandably reluctant to get in the way of 238-lb. Negro Fullback Marion Motley, hardest running back in pro football since Bronco Nagurski. Motley didn't get warmed up until the second half. Then he scored three touchdowns. Final score: Browns, 49; Bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Snowball | 12/27/1948 | See Source »

...Bronco Bill" Schindler, favorite of eastern midget auto-racing fans, drove his bucking doodlebug in Hinchliffe Stadium at Paterson, N.J. last week, fresh from victory two nights earlier at a track about 40 miles away. The crowd expected him to win again. As king of the eastern doodlebug circuit (53 wins in 1947, 35 so far in 1948), Bill Schindler is one of the sport's big money winners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Discreetly Daring | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

...time in turn he eased off, slid back into the second slot again. At the race's end, he was still second man. When Schindler pulled up, swung the stump of his left leg over the side and reached for his crutches, his fans showed their disappointment, but Bronco Bill did not. "There was oil on that track," he explained. "I might have skidded right into heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Discreetly Daring | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Having smashed 24 bones and lost a leg on the race track, Bronco Bill Schindler at 39 has learned to temper daring with discretion. Now president of the American Racing Drivers Club, which controls about 375 chauffeurs, he is a leading advocate of stricter racing rules, better machines, four-wheel brakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Discreetly Daring | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Director Rogell got cowboys to double for the stars. Though women have never been allowed in the Stampede, the picture's plot calls for a hard-riding heroine to shame the hero into being a real bronco-busting man. A former world's champion all-round cowboy, Jerry Ambler, got the assignment to double for redheaded Joan Leslie. In a red wig, he came out of the chutes at the fair grounds, astride a bucking bull. The grandstands hooted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: ALBERTA: Horse Opera | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

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