Word: canceler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tony kept running into trouble. He drew a $100 fine for cussing at fans; he had a spill that forced him to cancel his mounts for a week. Even after Tony began to draw in sight of the record, Jockey Culmone flatly predicted: "He'll never make it. The pressure will get him." Then Tony got another crusher: a ten-day suspension for twice lugging into a horse in a tight race. When the suspension was lifted the day before Christmas, he faced a seemingly impossible task: 19 winners in eight days...
...composed of the Du Pont chemical company, General Motors and U.S. Rubber. Hotchkiss wanted the court to force the Du Fonts to sell their chemical company's 23% common-stock interest in G.M. (now worth $1.3 billion) and the 18% interest in U.S. Rubber ($27.6 million), and to cancel all existing contracts between the three companies. But after seven days in court, the trial was suddenly halted...
Rain Check. In Bloomington, Ind., University of Indiana students scheduled a giant outdoor rain dance to seek relief for drought-parched crops, had to cancel the show because of a downpour...
...court decision held that although Matthiessen had clearly intended to cancel the bequests, he had not taken the necessary stops to make the change legal...
...example, Chile's new president made campaign promises to cancel Chile's Mutual Security Treaty, renew diplomatic relations with Russia, and allow the country's Reds to come out of hiding. The Bolivian government, which kicked American investors out of the tin industry, told the people that American refusal to pay a "fair" price for tin is at the root of their ecomic disaster. A flood of Communist and nationalist propaganda ruined our bid for a defense treaty with Mexico. Throughout Central and South America, in fact, politicians have found that denouncing the Yanqui pays off in votes. If such...