Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rail. As Nashua shot forward, Swaps first veered to the outside, then tried to close. The crowd waited confidently for Swaps to make his move. Twice, coming into the backstretch and approaching the far turn, Jockey Shoemaker tried to move up on the outside; each time Arcaro whacked his mount and pulled away, holding the inside track. Coming down the long (1,531 ft.) homestretch, Shoemaker finally used the whip, but Swaps had no more to give. Arcaro, furiously cross-whipping, drove Nashua across the finish line, ahead by a good 6½ lengths...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera will mount a newly designed production of The Magic Flute for its sole contribution; the Philharmonic-Symphony will offer two Mozart programs and play his music a bit more than usual the rest of the season. Closer to the composer's home territory, the activity gets more feverish. Vienna, in fact, has had to organize a central Mozart Festival Bureau, as a kind of musical traffic cop. Movie men are dreaming up a biographical film, while elsewhere, scholars are toiling at a new, complete edition of the master's music. Mightiest of Mozartean...
...Frank Sinatra has managed to irritate a crowd of 10,000 in Australia, sue a well-known producer for breach of contract and make it widely known that he "would rather punch him in the face," display scorn in public for Marlon Brando, alienate the affections of Sam Goldwyn, mount a wide-open attack on another entertainer in a prominent newspaper ad ("Ed Sullivan, You're sick . . . P.S. Sick! Sick! Sick...
...against birth control because it cuts down on the church's membership, cautions against discussing the race problem or labor-management relations because they are too controversial. But he does have his unorthodox moments: "I have long held the opinion-privately, of course-that the Sermon on the Mount is the most im practical nonsense I have ever read...
...text whenever some passing gallantry or casual brutality catches the author's eye. The result is hard to read, and harder still to characterize. Yet ten years afterwards, at a time when the spate of war books is slowly drying up. Author Johnston, now an English professor at Mount Holyoke College, has resurrected the realities of war with eerie, acrid pungency...