Word: gait
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, finally entered in the Hambletonian, trotting's annual classic, the fickle filly again kept a crowd of some 20,000 guessing, including city slickers who jammed the gaily canopied grandstand at Good Time Park in Goshen, N.Y. In the first heat, Helicopter lost ground by breaking her gait, coasted in 17th in a field of 23 (if three different trotters win the Hambletonian's scheduled three heats, the classic's winner is decided by a run-off heat held for them only). First-heat winner: a 17-10-1 shot, Milky Way Stable's Morse...
...gait the narrow seas...
Howe broke into the Red Wing line-up as an 18-year-old rookie from Saskatchewan, after part of a season practicing with the Wings' junior farm team at Gait, Ont. He was a rookie sensation, with 22 points (goals and assists) his first year. Since then his production has risen steadily. By the end of the 1951 season, he led the league with an alltime high of 86 points (43 goals, 43 assists), hit 86 again last year, and was voted the league's most valuable player. His 47 goals last year were second only to Richard...
Next day, with a careful, old man's gait, Churchill clambered into the presidential DC-6, the Independence, and headed off for two weeks in the Jamaican sunshine-which was, all pundits to the contrary, the primary reason for Churchill's American trip. In Manhattan, at week's end, Dwight Eisenhower said that he had recently asked "a man who is 78 years old-one of the world's great leaders," if it wasn't time for him to retire. The statesman's answer: "My opportunity for my greater service to my country probably...
...Hollywood version of the ideal cowboy is a Gary Cooper type, with a quick draw, a thick drawl and the sprawl of the Far West in his gait. Last week the picture cowboy was put to shame by a cowpoke from the wide open spaces of Peekskill, N.Y. Hard-riding Harry Tompkins. who learned his trade on a Catskill dude ranch, was named all-round world-champion cowboy of 1952 by the Rodeo Cowboys' Association...