Word: greys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh Competition. His "hard coal" greys were being threatened by a "soft coal" outfit from out Pittsburgh way. It was then that Kehoe brought out his ace, a grey-black-&-green veteran of two fights last year. It looked bad for the grey when a rival red rooster drove a spur into a lung. A few minutes later Kehoe's rooster suffered first a broken leg, then a broken wing...
...dirt coughing blood, unable to move, and shouts of "a hundred to ten" against his chances floated through the pit. His enemy, the red, picked and kicked at him. Then, with the kind of blind tenacity that seems to excel a human's, the grey came back. Almost 40 minutes later, he won over the red. Next morning, another of Kehoe's grey muffs came back from the dead to clinch first prize ($7,000) of the Orlando tournament for Kehoe. Glowed rough, tough old John Kehoe: "Cockfighting has added ten years to my life...
...Iron-grey, Argentine-bred Talon charged from last place to first to nose out On Trust in California's $102,500 Santa An ita Handicap, the world's richest race. In Florida's Flamingo Stakes, the horse that is supposed to have the inside track on the 1948 Kentucky Derby - Citation -romped home by six lengths in near track-record time...
Last fortnight Rines changed his black tie for a red and grey striped one. He thought he had won a partial victory. A jury in the grey courthouse* at Dedham, Mass, returned verdicts against two of the doctors by finding that they had performed their duties "in such a negligent manner" that it caused Mrs. Rines's injury and death. Damages assessed against the doctors totaled $15,000. Verdicts were returned in favor of three other physicians; the cases against the three nurses and the hospital had been dropped...
...Bazelon held some strong notions about how to run the companies. He thought the two rayon firms were making too much money (last year they had netted $5,700,000 on $37 million in sales). He also suspected that some of their customers were reselling their rayon in the grey market...