Word: mud
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came out-Turner bleeding from a back wound-and flopped dismally into the red mud...
...field entered the starting gate: "It's a little like putting Joe DiMaggio back in the game in midseason and letting him bat against good, seasoned pitchers. He might strike out." Jimmy had another bad moment when Citation broke slowly and wallowed down the backstretch eating mud from other horses' heels...
...share of the purse was hardly worth picking up. But Citation was back in form again: and that was racing news. Trainer Jones bustled down to the winner's circle to meet his horse as he jogged back, his bay hide splotched with mud and lather. Jimmy crouched, stared anxiously at the foreleg that had long kept Citation idle, and announced with relief: "He's sound . . . When he tells me-as he did a couple of days ago-that he wants to run, I'll run him [again...
...summer he would vanish to his farm in upstate New York to mend roofs, trudge through the mud and bargain at cattle auctions. In spring he played on a campus softball team known as Carman's Indians. He himself often wondered whether he was the type for "deaning." "Here," he once said of himself, "is a good dirt farmer gone wrong...
...Pudding official called this faux pas "a preposterous error" and predicted that from now on the Club's "social name will be mud...