Word: gerarde
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...main safe for additional funds. Within a few minutes, a courier-who doubles as a stablehand at Belmont-arrived with cash. As he handed the money to the clerk, he glanced through the window at the big winner. "Hi, Doc," the stablehand said. The salutation was for Dr. Mark Gerard, veterinarian to Secretariat during that Triple Crown winner's racing days and a familiar face to Belmont backstretchers. The chance encounter with the courier was to prove very troublesome. Three weeks later, a Uruguayan newspaperman called the Jockey Club steward at Belmont and told him that the horse...
...investigation that ensued and is still under way, it was learned that Lebón, Cinzano and a third horse, Boots Colonero, were imported to the U.S. by Gerard in early June. But the day the horses arrived at Gerard's Muttontown, N. Y., farm, Cinzano was reported to have suffered massive head injuries in a barn accident-the circumstances of which have never been explained-and had to be destroyed. New York State racing officials suspect that it was Lebón that was destroyed, not Cinzano, and that Cinzano, a blue-chip colt...
Neither team dominated during the remainder of the first half as the ball moved regularly from end to end. The initial 45 minutes finished in typical fashion with Elliot hitting the left post for Brown and Gerard Hall lifting a shot over the cross bar for Harvard, all within the last minute of play...
...However, Brown goalie Will Center foiled their attempts, punching two shots out of the goal, gathering in blasts above his head and to his lower left, and courageously coming out of his net to block a breakaway shot six inches after it left the foot of the Crimson's Gerard Hall...
...story focuses on two best friends, born on the first day of the century in the rural Po Valley: Alfredo (Robert De Niro), the son of the area's leading landowner, and Olmo (Gerard Depardieu), a peasant who works the estate. During the film's first and better half, Bertolucci lyrically propels his heroes through the rituals of young manhood: they discover the meaning of sex and money, search for love and adjust to the passing of their family patriarchs (Burt Lancaster and Sterling Hayden). As Alfredo and Olmo grow older, their personalities are increasingly shaped...