Word: hoof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EXERCISE: Put your right hoof in your right cuff, bend your elbow behind your ear, takes a snort and sneeze. The consequent sensation will parallel the pretzel-like contortion which most of us have sustained all year...
...throw away your ice-cream cones." Since Frisco's conductors are nothing if not captains of their cars, a chastened Lynda Bird Robb, Husband Chuck and their official San Francisco hostess meekly stepped off the Russian Hill clang-along to hoof it a while on their sightseeing trip...
That was the only race Native Dancer ever lost. In a three-year career marred by bad luck (he was knocked off stride by a swerving horse in the Derby) and a succession of physical ailments (bucked shins, stone bruises, a bad ankle, a sore hoof), Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's "Grey Ghost" won 21 out of 22 races and $785,240-surpassing the record of the legendary Man o War. He was such a favorite with the bettors that only in his very first race were Native Dancer's odds higher than 9 to 10. Retired...
...much money and production facility, failed in the first of two première weeks to contrive anything original, let alone imaginative, for their new dramatic and comedy series. Seven of the new shows are oaters. Now there are 14 of them on the air, and most suffer from hoof-in-mouth disease. High Chaparral (NBC) standing just south of Bonanza's Ponderosa, features Rancher Leif Erickson against Apaches, marauding Mexicans, and a disappointing son who whimpers while he works. ABC has Hondo, an Army trucemaker, some of whose best friends are Apaches, and Custer, which takes scalps from...
...chronic hoof trouble-which forced him out of last year's Kentucky Derby and kept him inactive for much of this spring-Ogden Phipps's Buckpasser still would be more aptly named Buckmaker. In three seasons, the four-year-old son of Tom Fool has started 28 races, won 24 and earned $1,347,744-ranking him third on the alltime moneywinning list behind Kelso ($1,977,896) and Round Table ($1,749,869). Last year Buckpasser set a world record of 1 min. 32 sec. for the mile, and ran away with the voting for Horse...