Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Belmont Park, N.Y., Greentree Stable's lightly weighted One Hitter, twice in one week, over Mrs. Charles Howard's Irish-bred Noor, four-time conqueror of Citation and holder of three world records. Also at Belmont Park, Christopher Chenery's Hill Prince, under top weight in the 81st running of the Jerome Handicap, over a field that included King Ranch's Middleground, to clinch 1950'$ top three-year-old honors...
Rough treatment of placekick holders caused the other rule shift. The place kicker has long been protected--by a 15-yard penalty--against roughing. Under the new rule, the holder gets the same protection...
...Roger Le Morvan, 26-year-old Parisian electrician, who had had former Record Holder Georges Michel as his trainer, had refreshed himself en route with glucose and champagne. Tiring in the last minutes, he could not match Abd el Rahim's sprint, climbed onto the beach just ten minutes after the Egyptian...
...Atlantic Monthly, Mary Bromfield described life with her farmer-writer husband Louis (Malabar Farm) Bromfield. The contents of his pockets, she noted, were a collection "worthy of the pockets of Huckleberry Finn ... a wallet filled with checks he has forgotten to cash ... a trick pocketknife, a cigarette holder, a cigarette lighter . . . part of a package of fruit drops, a pair of Stork Club dice ... an immense quantity of loose silver . . . clippings from the ten or twenty magazines and newspapers he reads every day, as well as a collection of crumpled and soiled memoranda...
...summer of 1947, when an investigator for the House Un-American Activities Committee testified that Ring Lardner Jr. was the holder of "1944 Card No. 46806" in the Communist Party, Ring was making $2,000 a week and had won an Academy Award for Katharine Hepburn's Woman of the Year. As one of the Hollywood Ten, he refused to tell the committee whether he was a Communist, was duly cited for contempt...