Word: grasse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bayeux balked in the post parade, wanted no part of a race that day. He got left at the post. He really couldn't be blamed: in Europe they didn't have these newfangled starting gates, the horses raced on grass instead of dirt, and most of the tracks ran clockwise instead of counterclockwise. The Aga Khan's Nathoo did a little better. For a mile and a furlong, he hung on the coattails of the leaders before giving it up as a bad job. He was beaten by 31½ lengths...
Jessup continued: "The Soviet Government has revealed the weakness of its position by adopting what I may refer to as grasshopper tactics . . . Each leap ends on a blade of grass which turns out to be a flimsy pretext requiring a jump to a new but equally unstable position . . . The long process of proposal and counterproposal, of promises made and withdrawn, made it plain that good faith-that prerequisite to settlement-was absent from the Soviet mind...
Moody Mystic. An example of the bad news filtering into Republican headquarters came from Minnesota, where Minneapolis Tribune polls showed moody Senator Joe Ball lagging 12 points behind his Democratic opponent, Minneapolis' glib, gregarious Mayor Hubert Humphrey Jr. Plugging away like a tired messiah, obviously uncomfortable at grass-roots campaigning, gangling Joe Ball was fighting for his political life...
...Harvard polo squads, indoor play will be an innovation. It is played on a far smaller area, puts a greater emphasis on control, and has one less man on a team. The play is further complicated by a dirt instead of grass surface, and the miserable lighting inherent in every armory...
...Pennsylvania Railroad's 9:35 a.m. train from Harrington, Del. to Franklin City, Va. isn't very impressive. It is made up of a locomotive, an ancient coach and a string of spavined baggage cars. But since nothing else runs on the 78 miles of grass-grown single track which wobbles its way between the two towns, the 9:35 is well known on the Eastern Shore. So is the 9:35-8 brakeman, Fred Warrington, of Harrington, who has worked for the Pennsy for 33 years. Last week Warrington's differences with . the Government made news...