Word: oxo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed out of sight of the nostalgic crowd on the Horse Guards Parade when its engine began to cough and sputter. Losing altitude rapidly, the pilot, Air Vice Marshal Harold John Maguire, spotted a green and empty sports field and prepared to belly-land on it. As the Oxo and Old Hollingtonian cricket teams, which had just retired to the pavilion for their half-time tea, watched in amazement, the stricken Spitfire shot in, flaps down and wheels up, narrowly missed an oak tree, flattened on the grass and skidded 60 yards to a stop in the outfield...
...Aintree, England, an eight-year-old English gelding named Oxo, at 8 to 1, won the 117th running of the famed Grand National Steeplechase. Only four of the 34 starters finished the rugged course...
...Dallas this week, an encouraging advance on the drug front was jointly announced by Sloan-Kettering, the Mellon Institute and Parke, Davis & Co. Their newest drug: "D.O.N." (for 6-diazo-s-oxo-l-norleucine), which effectively inhibits the formation of nucleic acid in mouse cancer cells, but causes negligible harm to healthy cells...