Word: greyed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's Jamaica race track last week, even the hardbitten pros felt a twinge of excitement as a powerful, dark grey colt named Native Dancer went to the post-at a champion's odds of 1 to 5. Unbeaten in eight starts, at distances up to 6½ furlongs, the two-year-old Dancer had to answer one more question: Could he go a distance? In the East View Stakes, at a mile-and-a-sixteenth, he answered the question...
...Warning Wave. Down the backstretch, Native Dancer was an unimpressive fourth, seven lengths behind Laffango, winner of the one-mile Champagne Stakes. At the far turn, Jockey Eric Guerin asked the big (1,150 Ibs.) grey colt for action. As usual, the Dancer responded with a surge of power, and by midstretch he had put away the leaders. Although the colt likes to loaf once he gets in front, a» warning wave of Jockey Guerin's bat sent him winging under the wire in an excellent 1:44⅓The victory, worth $38,525, boosted Native Dancer...
...most unkind cut; the grey-maned U.M.W. boss apparently guessed it would not happen, especially after he aligned himself solidly with the Democrats. Besides, he might have had in mind the Truman Administration's partiality to the steelworkers earlier this year...
...grim stage in the struggle for Triangle Hill, American wounded flowing down the south slopes were fired on by Communist mortars and wounded again or killed. Some of the walking wounded were using their rifles for crutches. One grey-haired lieutenant colonel who had gone out on an artillery reconnaissance found himself leading a charge, died in the enemy trenches...
...small (5 ft. 6½ in.), earnest funnyman was born Aaron Chwatt, the son of an immigrant hat blocker. He got the name "Red Buttons" because of his flaming hair-now prematurely grey-and a bellhop uniform he wore on his first comedy job while he was still attending a Bronx high school. Before the surprising success of his new show, Buttons had made some eight or nine guest appearances on TV without causing any particular excitement ("My first spot was on the Milton Berle show four years ago. And now-think of it-I'm playing in competition...