Word: colonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wall Street's betting during the British general elections of 1945. Winston Churchill was favored to win over his Socialist opponent Clement Attlee. Among Britain's bookies last week, Winnie's three-year-old colt Colonist II was the odds-on favorite for the Tonbridge Plate at Lingfield Race Course. Like his owner, he came in second. The reason was that a Lingfield, as at all U.S. tracks, the horses run counterclockwise, making left turns. Colonist had won all his races to date (three) on clockwise tracks, which are more common in France and Britain. At Lingfield...
...Churchill won his first race with his first race horse, Colonist II, in August...
Winston Churchill, equipped with an imposing pair of binoculars, took in the races at Windsor, saw his grey colt Colonist II win its second race in two starts...
...what all agreed was the world's finest rum ($3.75 a gallon in town). But whether at the American Club, the fashionable Centre d'Art, the Thorland Club's new gaming casino, or one of Port-au-Prince's two movie houses, the colonist was apt to see the same people-a writer of short stories for Collier's, a retired Marine captain, a rich cosmetics importer, a sculptor or two. Some sailed, some swam, some drove to resorts in the mountains, and some just sat on their porches in the moonlight, sipping rum drinks...
...Colonist Barr thinks the time is ripe for a new school, both because of the "shocking" shortage and because "I'm getting old." (He is 49.) Will there be still more Barr-built colleges on the St. John's pattern? "I'd like to think this is not the last. But somebody else will have to start the next...