Word: julep
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Most of the first words were wieldy enough, at least to Melody: conductor, scientist, julep. Almost as fast as Pronouncer Benson S. Alleman rolled them off his 670-word list, they were shot back, letter-perfect, in Southern drawls, crisp New England accents or Midwestern twangs. Then one boy spelled ardent with an a, and a 14-year-old girl had the same trouble with lavender, ending with ar. Another victim spelled conscientious with a c instead of t. Clyde W. Dawson, 13, of New Mexico, tacked an se to the end of incandescence, and in a real gone voice...
...horse to beat in the 82nd running of the Kentucky Derby. But they all had their doubts. The big bay colt had won his big races this spring in his home state, where he got a 5-lb. native-son weight advantage. There was also an old bluegrass-and-julep tradition : "No horse whose name begins with 'N' can win a Derby." None ever had; Native Dancer, the favorite, was nosed out in '53; last year Nashua, the favorite, was whipped...
Clouds piled high over Churchill Downs.Lightning flickered, and a few drops splashed from the thunderheads. The band broke into My Old Kentucky Home, the mint-julep vendors stopped their spiel, and the carnival that was the 81st Kentucky Derby slowed down to a hush...
...unromantic fact the bluegrass is no bluer than the Danube. It is an intense green most of the year. When the grass is in bloom, a faint bluish haze can be detected over the meadows but only with the aid of a strong imagination and a frosty julep...
...When we see Kentucky and Mississippi arguing as to who was responsible for the discovery of the mint julep [TIME, July 20], without even a mention of the Mountain State, we think it is time to step in and defend our honor. The Kentucky julep didn't even become popular until around 1881 . . . In the early 1830s, a tavern, which later became the Old White and still later the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., was famous for its mint juleps . . . But there are indications, turned up by our office, that the julep was invented right...