Word: fan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fan Club. In Florence, Ariz., Ted O. Mullen, acting warden of the state penitentiary, resigned when his request for a $2,400 salary boost was turned down despite a petition from 500 convicts who offered to pay the increase out of their recreation fund...
...skeptical eye of the Eastern racing fan, California breeds speed horses -not routers. The Californias tend to set a glowing pace through the early furlongs of the mile-and-a-quarter Kentucky Derby, only to fade in the homestretch.* At Long Island's Jamaica race track last week Easterners watched the latest pride of California, a leggy three-year-old bay named Correlation, and came away convinced there must be something wrong about their impression of California horses...
...Institution. "While busy at his mighty task, how gay he seems; how gay we are as we look on! How can we ever thank him?" asks Poetess Marianne Moore. "Immense fun to read," says Critic David Daiches. "A sparkling, damnably clever, wicked piece of work." "I am starting a fan club," bubbles Richard P. (7½ Cents) Bissell...
...sports-car fan in the U.S. or abroad would have to look twice to know what they are: Cunninghams, in the blue-and-white international racing colors of the U.S.* the only U.S.-built cars that can challenge, in classic road racing, the Ferraris and Lancias of Italy, the Jaguars of Britain, the Mercedes-Benzes of Germany...
...every space fan knows, the spaceship will approach the moon tail first, its rocket motors blasting hard enough to cancel the speed of falling through the moon's gravitational field. As it nears the surface, it will extend three spring-cushioned legs on which (if all goes well) it will come to rest in a vertical position, undamaged and ready for the earthbound blastoff. This delicate maneuver requires a level landing site; if the spaceship were to hit the lunar equivalent of the Grand Canyon, it would have small chance of seeing the earth again...