Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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King George had entered a filly named Angelola in the big race, but Queen Elizabeth didn't give the royal entry a prayer. Said she: "I think I should back My Love." So did most of the 400,000 fans lining the track at Doncaster, England, for last week's St. Leger (rhymes with quaint ledger). My Love was the 7-to-4 favorite; the Aga Khan's mahogany three-year-old had already won the Epsom Derby and the French Grand Prix...
...ridden by Australian Jockey Edgar Britt, settled down well to the rear, made no move until the stretch. Then, with only two furlongs to go, he put on a brilliant burst of speed to win from Alycidon, an outsider, by a length and a half. In sixth place: My Love, just ahead of Angelola...
...Negro lawyer, tried-and failed-to enroll in the white high school; and 29 more tried to do the same in Gloucester County. Their own schools, the Negroes said, were "wholly inadequate." The Negroes of King George County were especially discontented with their library. Sample books: The Love Letters of a Worldly Woman, a 1937 Bell System Technical Journal, a 1905 Annual Report of the Librarian of Congress, and a 1925 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Yearbook...
Crocodile tears were shed over this by people who had not sense enough to know that a man may honorably change his vocation, and by others unwilling to see that in doing jobs for his country, MacLeish was expressing in a different way the love of it that had given life to his best poems. Of the Indian chief Crazy Horse, victor over Custer, he had written...
...Prokosch character is ever really motivated by goals so easily stated. It is Marius who blows his top one night and rips down the facade of their pretenses: "We've all been lying. Cheating. Masquerading . . . What is it we're really after? . . . One wants peace. Another wants love. A third wants faith. A fourth wants power. It's all very simple. And rather absurd...