Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as Willie goes vigorously to the whip to let a horse know who is boss, so William Hartack Sr. wielded a switch with old-fashioned regularity to keep his kids in line. He had three children?Bill Jr., 8, Evelyn, 9, and Maxine. 1? when his wife Nancy died on Christmas morning of 1940 as the result of an automobile crash. He was far too busy scratching out a marginal living as a Colver. Pa. coal-miner to indulge his family in any subtle systems of discipline. "I used to take the stick a lot to Billy," father Hartack...
...chart books. Hartack walks around the house like a new bride, emptying ashtrays, positioning furniture, fidgeting over the least speck of dust. He is strictly an afternoon-and-night man, and his nightly dates require almost as much concentration as riding in horse races. It would not do to let things get mixed up, and the very idea of marriage is disturbing. "My God!" says Willie. "After three years in Miami, I know hundreds and hundreds of dames. I might have to give them up. It's a helluva problem...
...mount with the seat of his pants and the toes of his boots. "If a horse has a bad leg I change the stride in the warmup so's the horse will put his weight on both legs. Even if the leg hurts, you can't pity him and let him favor it. A horse's ears give you a lot of tips. If they're pinned back on his head, something's bothering him. Maybe the girth might not be set right, and you have to adjust it. Sometimes I make my inside stirrup a notch or two shorter...
...paralyzed from the shoulders down. For more than four hours, a team of three surgeons worked over him. At week's end sensation and strength were beginning to flow back through his rugged body. But his doctors were cautiously refusing to predict when Campanella would walk again, let alone play baseball...
Never before has a figure of Truman's historical size let down his hair at such candid, colloquial length before so vast an audience. On the Missouri Waltz, he said: "I don't give a damn about it, but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as The Star-Spangled Banner so far as music is concerned." A bright-eyed 72 when the film was shot. Truman favored posterity with his sunburst smile and flashes of his shrewdness, wisdom and trove of history...