Word: colde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relieve sore-legged horses -such as Dancer's Image, born with "mushy" (swollen) ankles-and permit them to train without pain. A normally sore horse will usually run better if his legs do not hurt, and unscrupulous trainers have used Butazolidin to run such animals "hot and cold"-sometimes giving them the drug, sometimes withholding it, in order to vary the horses' performance and affect the betting odds. To stop that practice, every major racing state now requires that no trace of Butazolidin remain in a horse's system on the day of a race. Kentucky...
...staff hotel was demonstrative of their whole attitude. The Antlers was seven blocks from headquarters and just a step away from becoming a bona fide flophouse. The cockroaches attested to that. Or the bathrooms that flooded with cold water whenever you tried to take a shower. The single, cardboard elevator was operated by Maggie, a rough, surly old woman. Single men were warned not to ride the elevator with her alone, especially if they were going all the way to the eighth floor. The Antlers had been chosen for one reason--it was cheap. The staff responded to the challenge...
...cold that day, so cold that the air was noisy and burned with excitement. Perhaps it was speaking of the teach-in; perhaps you only thought so, but you were excited and felt movement and a strange kind of vigor, uncharacteristic of most winters...
...WINTER then, and appropriately so. Teach-ins aren't a way of coming in out of the cold maybe...
...went outside in the cold and dirty snow of the soot-soaked city. And you walked and felt uneasy and looked for a public toilet...