Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout last Sunday's demonstration for affirmative action, Howard S. Jones '78 stood impassively, never joining the rest of the crowd sprawled on the grass. He remained alone, holding up a sign that read, "Affirmative action is unjust" on one side, and "Hire on merit" on the other...
Sleeping bags and blankets littered the grass outside Byerly Hall hours before the office opened at 8:30 a.m. The special dorm crews will stage a "precommencement clean-up" of the campus next month...
Several students said they were upset by the fact that their places in line were taken by late-comers who parked themselves in front of the side entrance to the building while the other were sleeping on the grass in the center of the Yard...
...imposing were the colt's credentials that a Blue Grass record crowd of 20,900 wagered an unprecedented $330,000 on the race, most of it on Honest Pleasure. By post time, the actual odds were 1 to 18, and he did not disappoint his backers. (Good news for the bettors, bad news for the track: it lost $41,876.20 on the race, since it had to pay $2.20 for each $2 bet on Honest Pleasure...
...then did Honest Pleasure's trainer, LeRoy Jolley, not look so jolly after the race? For one thing, the colt did not win the Blue Grass in his customary runaway style. His time was poor (1:49 2/5% for the 1⅛% mile) and his margin a mere 1½ lengths over a 148-to-l shot named Certain Roman, primarily because he fought furiously against Jockey Braulio Baeza's efforts to slow him in the backstretch. For another, there is Bold Forbes, a sprightly East Coast colt who was thought to be essentially a sprinter until...