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Word: pitt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ache." (Fruchtman jokes that when Bally Ache goes to stud, his first colt will be named Bally Button.) Bally Ache has run out of the money only once in 23 races, since January has won the $100,000 Flamingo Stakes and the $100,000 Florida Derby. Says Trainer Jimmy Pitt: "He's successful because he never frets or fusses and is the most relaxed individual I've ever met." In his final Derby prep last week, Bally Ache easily won the Stepping Stone Purse at Churchill Downs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Derby Favorites | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...Iroquois word for "thing of beauty." For a century and a half, while nursing the frontier's commerce and industry, the Ohio continued to be a 981-mile-long showcase of nature's charms. Rising at the confluence of the Allegheny and the Monongahela rivers at Fort Pitt (now Pittsburgh's "Golden Triangle"), the Ohio wound through coal-rich mountains to reach the seven hills of Cincinnati, cultural center of the new West. Alive with bass and blue gill, it foamed bright white at Louisville's limestone falls, poured clean blue into the Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RIVERS: The Rejuvenated Ohio | 1/11/1960 | See Source »

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