Word: horseman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amount of speechifying, however, could dim the fact that the American Party, founded three years ago and made up of various state parties that had backed Wallace in the 1968 presidential election, was what one dispirited conventioneer called a "headless horseman." The delegates nominated a lame-duck Republican Congressman from California named John Schmitz for President and Thomas Anderson, 61, conservative publisher of Florida Grower and Rancher magazine for Vice President...
Doris Lessing (Banfam) St. Urbain 's Horseman by Mordecai
...wanted to ask him some questions about his part-ownership of the Berkshire Downs race track in Massachusetts during the early 1960s, when other part-owners included two Mafia leaders. But when the committee tried to serve a subpoena on Sinatra, it couldn't find the fast-moving horseman, who turned up in London-to attend some races. He was seen at dinner with Composer Frederick Loewe (My Fair Lady), but then checked out of his hotel for points unknown. Said a hotel spokesman: "Frank Sinatra is not here physically, mentally, spiritually or in any other...
Texan Larry McMurtry is much better known for the movies made from his fiction than for the books themselves. His first novel. Horseman, Pass By, became Hud; his third was The Last Picture Show...
...Crimson horseman meet the University of Virginia next Tuesday at Darien, Conn. in the first game of the National Collegiate Tournament. The tournament will be single elimination with Harvard, Yale, Cornell, Virginia, Connecticut, and Texas A and M. participating...