Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the most coveted honor in U.S. horse racing, the Triple Crown? Last week a record crowd of 81,036 came to find out, as the big (16.1 hands) copper colt went to the post in the $125,000 Belmont Stakes, the final jewel in the Triple Crown. A fleet, frantic 2 min. 30.2 sec. later, the fans at Belmont and millions more watching on TV in the U.S. and Venezuela had the answer...
...onero," he said solemnly, "told me six days before the Derby that he would win. On Wednesday he told me that he would win the Preakness." Win he did. Rounding the final turn, Avila let Cañonero have his head, and the horse swept by Eastern Fleet and won going away. Cañonero's winning time of 1 min. 54 sec. clipped three-fifths of a second off the old Preakness record set by Nashua...
Going into the Belmont, the tune had changed. Reggie Cornell, the trainer of Eastern Fleet, would not even enter his horse. "Not me," he said. "I'll let somebody else chase that cannon-ball." Nevertheless, a lot of somebodies decided to try-especially after a skin rash and an infected hoof caused Cañonero to miss two days of training. By post time, the field had grown to 13; nine of the horses Cañonero had never met before, including a speedy bay colt named Pass Catcher who had registered two firsts and a second...
...timed proposal, but some Nixon critics feel that the President greatly overreacted. As part of the counterattack on Mansfield, the Administration sought to link the arms limitation issue with the troop reduction issue. During the talks, the Russians have insisted that American nuclear weapons in Europe-aboard Sixth Fleet carriers in the Mediterranean, for example-must be included in any arms-limitation agreement. The U.S. has argued that these weapons should be reduced only if the Soviets shave their armaments in Europe as well, including medium-range nuclear missiles. These questions may be taken up in multilateral negotiations among...
...that any satisfactory SALT agreement should cover offensive as well as defensive weapons. The Soviets have made another demand that Washington considers totally unacceptable. They want all nuclear weapons systems capable of reaching Soviet soil-including the 600 U.S. tactical aircraft on NATO bases in Europe and aboard Sixth Fleet carriers -written into any SALT agreement on offensive weapons. Yet they refuse to concede that intermediate-range Soviet missiles capable of hitting Western Europe should also be limited...