Word: herd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other Derby eligibles were entered, just to make a race of it: Valdina Paul and Valdina Groom, two of Texan Emerson Woodward's herd, all named Valdina Something-or-other, that have invaded U.S. tracks this year. But from the flag's fall it was a two-horse race. Our Boots was ridden by little Conn McCreary, who is so small he looks like a pussycat on a horse. Puss McCreary acted like a wise old cat. Leading from the start, he eased Our Boots in the backstretch, let Whirlaway get in front. Then, rounding the home turn...
...back from Belgrade to Budapest (TIME, Feb. 3). Tough, square-jawed Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary, asked Count Csáky's successor, Dr. Laszlo Bardossy, to step into the shoes of Premier Teleki. Budapest called Premier Bardossy "another tightrope walker"-meaning no offense-but with Germany riding herd in Hungary, there was no more tightrope to walk. Great Britain broke off diplomatic relations this week and prepared to bomb German troop concentrations in Hungary, a process already begun in Rumania and Bulgaria...
Another wreath belonged on the grave of F. Donald Coster. For although he milked McKesson of almost $3,000.000, Mr. Coster, a dynamic and farseeing businessman as well as a crook, had gathered for the purpose a herd of very sturdy cows. Less than 5% of McKesson business comes from its own branded drugs, vulnerable to the scandalous publicity. Most of the rest is a distributing business, which wholesales some 48,000 different items, from alarm clocks to Coca-Cola syrup, to some 30,000 independent drugstores throughout...
...Social justice for groups and individuals to end the blight of the " 'mass man,' who is conscious of no status spiritual or social, who is a mere item in the machinery of production, and who easily develops the herd psychology...
...Central Galleries) depicted glowing Western canyons, Indian cliff dwellings, stampeding horses, luridly lit desert dawns and sunsets. Fifty-Seventh Street's sophisticates thought they looked as corny as old-fashioned magazine covers, but had to admit that few living artists could paint a prancing steed or a frightened herd of mountain goats as realistically as William Robinson Leigh...