Word: host
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago's Washington Park for the 40th running of the American Derby, Hill Prince made another bid for the title. Although Middleground was not among the nine horses which went to the barrier, the field was a strong one, including William Goetz's flashy, California-bred Your Host and Calumet Farm's entry of Theory and All Blue...
...field entered the backstretch, then let him move up on the outside. At the head of the stretch, All Blue* had the lead, but Hill Prince caught him with a rush in the last sixteenth. Hill Prince won by more than a length over All Blue, with Your Host third. Time for the mile and a quarter: a fast 2:01 1/5. The winner's purse, $60,050, brought Hill Prince's three-year-old earnings to $210,563, tops in his class...
These days, there seems not an amiable bone left in Malik's body. (His drinking habits seem symbolic. At U.S. parties, Malik used to be a smooth, sociable guest or host, not averse to a cocktail or Bourbon & water. Recently, in the Security Council delegates' lounge, he has stuck to fruit juice or soda water.) Says Norway's Arne Sunde: "Malik is very rude. And he looks as if he believed in his rudeness...
...Formosans' confidence in their government. On more than one occasion, Formosa's Nationalists have sharply and justifiably reminded the puny U.S. representation here that the statements of Secretary of State Dean Acheson and other Washington spokesmen constituted a direct attack on a government which was, after all, host to the very Americans in charge of disseminating these statements throughout Formosa...
Relaxed in a wooden armchair at Chartwell, his 300-acre Kentish estate, Winston Churchill chewed his ubiquitous cigar and watched his tractors at work, while Anthony Eden, No. 2 man of His Majesty's Loyal Opposition, carefully arranged his well-tailored frame on the grass beside his host...