Word: haye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...race mare does well to eat 8 or 9 qt. of oats a day, and 12 qt. are a lot for an above-average male. Secretariat is what track people call a "good doer." He eats 16 qt., and between meals keeps his groom busy replenishing the supply of hay on which he nibbles almost constantly...
Secretariat could probably have finished even faster, but he is fastidious about his mealtime manners. He likes to work on the mash for a while, then refresh his taste buds with a sip of water or a few wisps of hay. From time to time he pauses to tidy the floor of his stall by picking up stray kernels. He is the neatest glutton at the track...
...Times offered his-and-her Phantom V Rolls-Royce limousines, custom-built by the famed James Young Coachworks, for $250,000. Five years ago, one of the cars was sold for only $8,000 to a dealer by an eccentric Maryland horse breeder who used the car as a hay wagon. The market is glutted with high-priced limousines that were supposedly once owned by Hitler. Most of these, the experts say, are fake...
...REAP money have been introduced. Says one of the sponsors, Iowa Republican Congressman William Scherle: "I don't blame the President for this. I blame those Katzenjammer Kids at the White House. They don't know the difference between an ear of corn and a bale of hay." Meanwhile Wyoming Democrat Gale McGee, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, says that he will refuse to hold hearings on or vote any money for the President's agriculture budget until REAP and all other impounded farm funds are restored. Speaking of the President's budget...
...voice. It prompted two-thirds of the audience in Powell Symphony Hall to stand and applaud, a handful to stand and walk out, and the remainder pointedly to remain seated. Says Persichetti: "I just want to be judged on musical grounds. I don't want to make hay on the basis of politics...