Word: lames
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race day, as 15 sleek thoroughbreds paraded to the post, all eyes were on Ridan. His biggest competition, the early favorite Sir Gaylord, was out of the race -he had pulled up lame the day before-and the smart money figured Ridan at 2 to 1. Breaking perfectly, the horses pounded around the fading arc of the clubhouse turn, fought for position on the rail. As they swept into the back stretch, Hartack might have permitted himself a grim smile. Up ahead, Ridan refused to obey the commands of Jockey Manuel Ycaza and spurted into a three-length lead. Ycaza...
...that time, Otilio Ulate, a conservative newspaper publisher, was a clear winner in the presidential elections. In second place was Rafael Angel Calderón Guardia. an ex-President (1940-44) who still controlled the lame-duck Congress and got the election overturned as "fraudulent." Not until Ulate's campaign manager, a fiery, reform-minded planter named José ("Pepe") Figueres, rose in revolt and won a bloody, five-week civil war was Ulate able to take office. Figueres was elected President in his own right in 1953, went on to become the nation's most prominent political...
...faith-healing service, at which a minister lays hands on the lame, the halt and the blind while praying for a cure from God, is a growing U.S. religious practice. Pentecostal Preacher Oral Roberts, best known of the nation's circuit-riding faith healers, has made the practice a standard feature of his big-time revival meetings, which draw crowds of up to 30,000. Even some Episcopal ministers conduct healing services...
...does not count Speaker Theodore M. Pomeroy, who served for one day - May 3, 1869. His predecessor, Schuyler Colfax, resigned the Speakership that day in order to take the oath of office as Grant's Vice President. The House needed a Speaker for the final day of that lame-duck session and elected Pomeroy...
...superb-particularly his stylized forest of plate-sized green leaves, spread in a gigantic canopy across the stage-and the costumes by Karinska were as opulent as any the City Ballet has ever displayed (the corps de ballet's wispy costumes cost $400 apiece; Oberon's gold lame tunic, $1,200). With a cast of nearly 100, most of the emphasis was inevitably on swirling group movements and splashy stage effects: clouds of smoke pouring over the footlights into the orchestra pit, Titania coming onstage with a magnificent retinue. There were also some deft characterizations and some fine...