Word: gallop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wombat. Near Sydney, Australia, a captive wombat,* the property of one Timothy Sermon, was chained to a post for the entertainment of visitors to Timothy Sermon's ranch. A lanky, nervous creature, this sly marsupial† spent his days in a hopscotch circular gallop, his nights in forlorn and ridiculous nightmares, or wild nostalgic visions. Last week, Timothy Sermon found his wombat, covered with dirt and excrement, his thin sensitive nose pushed far into the yellow loam, a suicide...
...outstanding number 2 riders in the country. The second match with Myopia was featured by the two scores of W. H. White '28 and J. P. Mandell '29, both made in the first chucker of the encounter. Mandell's tally was a result of a fast gallop three quarters the length of the field...
...asked to gallop horse after horse every morning during the training hour. It took most of my strength away from me. I had no strength left to ride with during the afternoon. My riding became bad. We lost races which it seemed we should have won. I was riding the best horses, but couldn't win with them and I was blamed for the defeats. But I was still asked to gallop horses every morning. It was either quit Whitney or become a bum as a rider and so I quit Whitney...
...after another 31 horses found 250 lb. too great a weight to carry at full gallop. Yet, spurred by Death behind, General Gallegos changed from horse to horse, his body anguished from jouncing, his face haggard, fearful...
...next few moments we counted some thirteen or fourteen riders, all of whom seemed to have chosen us as a common goal. We urged our camels to a trot and then to a gallop, while the wind continued to rise and the air to fill with dust. Nearer came the riders, gaining rapidly, so that it seemed that half an hour would bring them upon us. Ten minutes more and we ran into a dried river course, filled with smooth, rounded stones, the most treacherous footing imaginable. Over this our camels slipped and floundered desperately, while Hamida rasped furious curses...