Word: lot
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They are a game lot--North Flight, winner of three stakes in a row and placed in a fourth; Dike, winner of the Wood Memorial and third in two of the classics; and Al Hattab, winner of three stakes including the Fountain of Youth. There will be others...
Previously Arts And Letters had won--some say stolen--the Belmont Stakes. The odds against him were eight to five. The policemen that day were Majestic Prince, Prime Fool, Distray, Dike, and Rooney's Shield. A medieval lot. The best of this assortment was found wanting by five and a half lengths when the little terror romped across the finish...
...There were a lot of intellectual bullshitters. We got rid of them...
...buildings, cracks rubber tires, ruins nylon stockings and worsens all sorts of human ailments. According to one Government study, air pollution costs Americans an average $65 a year; the figure may hit $200 in particularly filthy cities like New York and St. Louis. Even so, most citizens have a lot to learn about pollution. When a sampling of St. Louis residents were polled on how much they would pay in higher taxes to clean up the air, they reckoned that the effort might be worth 500 a year, at most $1. Ignoring their own auto-exhaust fumes, they also insisted...
Blow for Liberty "There's a lot of yella bastards in the country who would like to call pa triotism old-fashioned," grouses Wayne today. As he sees it, yesterday was even worse. "With all that leftist activity, I was quite obviously on the other side," he recalls. "I was invited at first to a coupla cell meetings, and I played the lamb to listen to 'em for a while. The only guy that ever fooled me was the di rector Edward Dmytryk. I made a pic ture with him called Back to Bataan...