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Word: colts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stay in his stall. Citation, 1948's wonder horse, looked like an obvious shoo-in. Then Citation injured his left foreleg, and temporarily retired from the wars. Hastily Mrs. Graham's Maine Chance Farm shipped Ace Admiral west, and plunked down $5,000 for the handsome chestnut colt's late entry in the Maturity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sound Investment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

...shouted at Arias, reaching for his hip. "I was one of Villa's Golden Ones!" "And I am from Michoacán!" snarled Arias. Alva drew his .45 Colt automatic; Arias leveled his pearl-handled .38 at the general's middle. Without saying anything more, he squeezed the trigger three times. The general sank to the black-&-white marble tiles, fired once before he hit the floor. Once was enough: his slug ripped through the police chief's heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: A Slug In the Heart | 1/31/1949 | See Source »

...first period of the Leverett Dunster game, played at the Arena, Miles Herter scored two goals and Doug Worrall scored one to give Leverett an early lead. In the second period, Joe Colt made another goal for the Bunnies, while Larry McClure scored the first Dunster point. Henry Fletcher and Rene Farrington brought Dunster two more points in the third period, but three goals scored by Sherry Houston, Doug Worrall, and Bob Foster clinched the game for Leverett...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lowell, Eliot Win Hockey Openings | 12/15/1948 | See Source »

Uncle Row liked good food and comfort and whiskey. He had legally fathered 17 children and, he admitted to other men, one "brush colt" somewhere along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Funeralizing Uncle Row | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...south by Annapolis, Md. And even in this narrow province there are local differences. Harvard men, say the Dartmouth authors, try to act indifferent; a Williams man "always manages to look as though he has just been out for a stroll to see how the new colt is faring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Of Dates & Drags | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

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