Word: hind
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...driver, "but at least one is safer." The orthodox leader, Rabbi Blau, however, deplored the violence. "If I had my way," he said, "every Jew who wishes to stand up against what he believes to be a desecration of his faith would demonstrate with his hands tied be hind his back to prove he came in peace...
...years ago and trained into a sensational jumper. Peering through his spectacles, he gave her a remarkably relaxed ride, took her easily over the first five jumps. On the sixth and toughest jump-a 5-ft.-high and 5-ft.-wide "double oxer"-the mare's hind hoofs, desperately straining upwards, did not quite clear the white bar and sent it sailing to the floor...
...after speech, Yarborough told Texans: "You know during that campaign the poor old Democrat donkey got kicked all over Texas, and the person kicking him the hardest was Allan Shivers. He beat that Democratic donkey until he was bleeding around the ears, and he was lame in his left hind leg . . . Nobody much wanted that donkey then, but I took him home and put him in the stable and nursed him ... By this spring you couldn't count his ribs, and his hair was shining like a silver fox. I got on that donkey and started to ride...
Jawaharlal Nehru and his Indians seemed just as anxious to please. Nehru had run 2,500 friends of Red China out to the airport in 50 chartered buses so they could shower Chou with rose petals and cry out "Chin Hind bhai bhai" (Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers) as the black-garbed Communist walked down the ramp. Nehru had Chou garlanded with flowers, led him around a guard of honor...
...Reader Stearns's views on galloping horses [TIME Letters, March 22]: maybe the drawing of the Stone Age horse isn't so wrong after all. Horses do on occasion have their front legs stretched out in front and their hind legs extending to the rear . . . The horse in the picture (enclosed) is crossing the finish line in a race at Gulfstream Park, and the camera caught him thus...