Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson mentor believes his charges have a chance to bring home to crown. "They're going to win it," Haggerty said. "That's their attitude...
...perennially promising young man of American letters is 50 and enjoying a very good year indeed. Spring kept him busy accepting awards. Rabbit Is Rich, his third look at an aging ex-jock in southeastern Pennsylvania, is now being issued in paperback after winning the literary Triple Crown: the Pulitzer Prize ("Critics have called the book a fulfillment of Updike's fabulous promise"), an American Book Award ("Let us celebrate the prestidigitator who tells today with passion and warning, and tricks it into language's jubilee") and a commendatory scroll from the National Book Critics Circle ("The novel...
...Boston horse," as he became known around the peak of that first season, continued to win races beyond the Hub. By the time he had won the Flamingo Stakes and the Florida Derby--two key prep races for the Kentucky Derby--he was being touted as the next Triple Crown horse. And not unreasonably so. In the parading he exhibited a rare kind of self-assurance, and out on the track he proved he had talent, leaving great gaps of home stretch between himself and his rivals...
...between Timely Writer and the Triple Crown' stood the unhappy timing of a bizarre intestinal twist which left the colt recuperating from emergency surgery while the spring's Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes passed him by. The experts gave the horse only even odds to survive the operation, but by August he had put in a victorious appearance at Saratoga. This served notice that the son of Staff Writer had regained his earlier form, and going into the Jerome Handicap in early September he looked like the Boston horse...
...close with a strategic analysis of the situation in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan and South and North Yemen. He seemed especially worried about the vulnerability of Saudi Arabia, adding that if a real threat ever developed there, he would be willing to help. He had told Crown Prince Fahd, "Your borders are my borders." In spite of the Saudis' public criticism of his peace initiative, he was still