Word: midgeter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest sponsor of U.S. auto racing, the American Automobile Association has backed everything from the annual 500-mile Indianapolis Speedway classic to midget races on 1-mile tracks. Lately, however, the A.A.A.'s top brass has been worried by the sport's mounting cost in human life-more than 170 deaths in the U.S. since 1945. The disaster at Le Mans, France, where 82 were killed by a runaway car (TIME. June 20), helped decide the issue. Last week in Washington. President Andrew J. Sordoni announced that starting next year the A.A.A. would "no longer be identified" with...
...Half a mile from the finish in the last of nine races for the Syce Cup and the Long Island Sound women's sailing championship, pint-sized Toni Monetti, 18, who won the midget title only five years ago, messed up a jibe and lost most of the lead she had built up on the first leg. Without wasting a moment, the Skidmore College sophomore went forward to untangle the sheets of her Lightning's big spinnaker. She finished in time to sail home third, earning just enough points to bring the Syce Cup home...
...news hit the wires, stock prices were falling. Hurriedly, the Senator, scared by the political effect of a market break, called in the press. What he had in mind, said Fulbright, was no punitive probe like the 1932-34 Pecora investigation (when a circus pressagent popped a midget on J. P. Morgan's knee). Instead, Fulbright was planning "a friendly study...
...lassoes the audience. But what was always brightest about the play-its procession of cockeyed characters through the swinging doors of a waterfront dive- still has considerable lure. Its old Kit Carsonish liar, whose opening gun is "I don't suppose you ever fell in love with a midget weighing 39 pounds," its beplumed society lady who springs to her feet when a Salvation Army hymn strikes up, its old woman jabbering rapid-fire Italian, its nervous swain constantly dropping nickels into a pay phone, its persistent fanatic nursing along the marbles game-these have a fine exuberance...
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