Word: grandstanders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...might upset Calumet Farm's powerful entry: Citation and Coaltown. They were such red-hot favorites that for the first time in 43 years no place or show betting was allowed. But, mud or no mud, as the field of six (smallest in 41 years) thundered by the grandstand into the first turn, Coaltown was out in front, bouncing along like a big brown tomcat. He had never been beaten in his life...
Most U.S. correspondents were in the Astor Hotel and they had a grandstand view of the fighting, in which 300 died. Cabled TIME Correspondent Tom Dozier: "Outside the hotel lie the bodies of two men and one woman who climbed atop one of the tanks that moved through the mob to defend the Presidential Palace. Government riflemen lying prone in the street popped them off at short range. One fell beneath the tank's treads and his head was crushed. It is not a pretty sight...
...Cage a week or so ago, squad members have been pretty well split up. Milers and two-milers have been going along the river bank, "nice, easy speed up to Police Station and back" (a distance of 31/ miles), the pole-vaulters have used the runway under the Stadium grandstand, and most of the field men have warmed up out behind the baseball grandstand...
...handyman to have words with Big Jim. Ordinarily, Republican governors do as Uncle Joe says. But Big Jim, after hearing the Grundy man out, took his feet off his desk, stood up and roared: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time [that] I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." The tax bills passed...
Industrious H.A.A. officials outdid themselves in drawing up the weekend sports agenda, slating five major games in the Blockhouse, Arena, and Garden Saturday afternoon and evening. Discriminating sports fans will have trouble choosing on which grandstand to park themselves and their dates during the event-packed...