Word: colts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facilities permit, the book can be studied in conjunction with language records; otherwise the troops must rely for pronunciation on the English phonetics which are given for each Italian word. These phonetics provide a reasonable approximation of Italian pronunciation, but many a U.S. soldier will shy like a startled colt at learning that to ask "When does the movie start?" he must say: "ah KAY Ora ko-MEEN-cha eel FEELM?" Or that the homely, familiar phrase "main street" turns out to be "STRAda preen-chee...
...Saturdays in New York Baruch still likes to go to the races-as he did last fortnight, with his close friend, Herbert Bayard Swope, to watch the Carter Handicap, once won by his colt Happy Argo. But he has given up his big Kershaw Stable and now makes only "nominal" .bets...
...Long Island's Belmont Park, Count Fleet romped off with the Belmont Stakes for a clean sweep of America's five spring specials for three-year-olds. Just as in the Wood Memorial, Derby, Preakness and Withers, there was no one to press the colt that started his racing career last summer as the fastest two-year-old of all time...
...Count has already won 16 races, earned $250,300, made a runaway farce of top 1943 three-year-old events. The final test of ability will come when he is entered in races against older horses like Whirlaway, Alsab, Market Wise and Don Bingo, the four-year-old Argentine colt that ruined Bob Hope's radio scripts when he won the Suburban Handicap for Bing Crosby earlier in the week...
...German] Chief Mate Munte . . . was seated in his office in the Casquet [Channel Islands] lighthouse. . . . A slight noise-it may have been the click of the door as it closed softly-caused him to turn in his chair. Leaning against the door were two men with black faces. . . . Colt automatics, negligently poised, were in their hands...