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...goose his prey. The fierce blast of noise and dust sends the horses galloping down a yard-wide path that leads smack into a steel-fenced pen. Just as they reach the gully, Robison digs two silver spurs into his sorrel and charges in behind them. Now the old mare at the head of the pack realizes her mistake. She frantically tries to turn but is swept along by the others...
...know what it is to succumb to an insurmountable day mare-a whoresome lethargy-an indisposition to do anything-a total deadness and distaste-a suspension of vitality-an indifference to locality-a numb soporifical goodfornothingness-an ossification all over-an oyster-like insensibility to the passing events-a mind stupor-a brawny defiance to the needles of a thrusting-in conscience...
...backhoe (variously, Surfs black-and-yellow dune buggy, a brood mare, 50 uncleared mountaintop acres, a floor sander...
Best known of the defendants-and the only one to receive a life sentence was Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan, 61, who was reportedly known at Maidanek as "the Mare," because of her predilection for kicking victims with her shiny jackboots. She was accused of murdering nearly 1,200 prisoners, mostly women and children, and of complicity in the deaths of 725 more. An Austrian, Hermine met Russell Ryan, then a U.S. Air Force mechanic, in Europe, married him in Canada in 1958 and later moved with him to the U.S., where she became a citizen and a resident of Queens...
...feel blessed," grins Elsie Berger, 72, at being named the first Horsewoman of the Year by Horseman and Fair World magazine. She was certainly a long shot, for men had won the honor the previous 24 years. Starting with little more than a dream-a mare named Niagara Dream, to be exact-Berger turned a mom-and-pop stable into a racing powerhouse. Her ticket to the winner's circle was Niatross, a strapping bay regarded as the swiftest standard-bred in the history of the sport. In two years, he took top laurels on 37 of 39 trips...