Word: gallops
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...months ago to succeed the late Dwight Griswold (TIME, April 26), Nebraska Rancher Eva Bowring adopted a rancher's formula: "I'm going to ride the fence awhile until I find where the gates are." Last week Senator Bowring found a gate and rode through at full gallop...
...Bernie Everson, the Dancer's regular exercise boy, mounts and, with Winfrey in the lead on a palomino pony, walks the Dancer slowly out to the big track. From the stands, the dockers can see a quarter of a mile away that the Big Grey is out for a gallop. Another Vanderbilt horse, Find, jogs ahead and then breaks into a gallop. Everson follows with the Big Grey. "I got the Dancer," cries one of the dockers, flicking the stem of his stopwatch. Effortlessly, the big legs stretch out, and the long grey frame glides past the white and gilt...
Near Bamberg in Franconia is a smallish cave with a hollow in front of it. In that hollow, in ancient times, a wicked duke cornered three virgin princesses and, when they resisted him, cut off their heads. Every October since then, says Bamberger legend, the three determined virgins gallop out of the cave by the light of the harvest moon. Headless and dressed in transparent robes, they charge around the woods on three white horses...
...Poor little Jules" was no dynamo. He could not, like his mistress, write for 14 hours at a stretch and then mount a horse and gallop to a lovers' tryst. Soon he was dropped by the wayside, and George moved on to Novelist Prosper Merimee. Merimee, as Maurois vouches, "was of the race from which the Devil picks his Don Juans," and spoke of love "with all the coarseness of a medical student"; George hoped that his cynicism would cure her "childish susceptibilities." But "Don Juan failed utterly to come up to scratch...
...tropi" for short) is a queer chap, human in that he smokes his meat and buries his dead; simian in many of his physical characteristics; a bit of both in that, though normally erect in stance, he is happy to drop on all fours and thunder off at a gallop. Australian wool interests hope that the "tropis" will prove to be a dream-come-true-workers who can be trained to operate a loom without benefit of paycheck...