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Word: colts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roughness in the second statement has been more apparent. In the past four years in Beeville (pop. 7,000), a South Texas oil and cattle town, Sheriff Ennis has killed seven people with his .44 Colt revolver and his .45 submachine gun-not all, however, with one shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TEXAS: Hellbent Sheriff | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...touched the starter button. An explosion ripped the car apart. Danny, bowled over by the blast, was not seriously hurt. Burkett Ivins lived long enough to mutter: "I'm done in for good-but to think they would do that to my Danny." Beside him was his .45 Colt automatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TENNESEE: Booby Trap | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...Street tweeds, wealthy Jockey Richards looks like a well-dressed ex-fullback, seen through the wrong end of a telescope. Last week he went out in flannel shirt and whipcord breeches. The runabout pulled up before a rambling old brick stable. There Richards mounted a delicately built, undersized brown colt named Tudor Minstrel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wonder Man, Wonder Horse | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

When the horses go to the post this afternoon at Churchill Downs, Edward R. Hewitt, 2nd '47 will be watching eagerly from the boxes, camera, field glasses, and tip sheet firmly in hand as his father's colt, Phalanx, gets away from the starting gate in its usual leisurely fashion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boss's Son Heads For Derby Town, Bets on Phalanx | 5/3/1947 | See Source »

...chances. Willie Molter, the nation's leading trainer last year, said that On Trust was the most knowing race horse he had ever worked with. On the figures, as the one Derby candidate who had run and won a mile and a quarter test, Molter's colt was the horse to beat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Horses to Beat | 4/28/1947 | See Source »

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