Word: race-track
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...Race-track French. Havre de Grace (Harbor of Grace) got its name during the American Revolution, when the Marquis de Lafayette decided that the setting, at the mouth of the Susquehanna, reminded him of France's Le Havre...
Arriving from France to be treated at Boston's Jewish Memorial Hospital, Raoul Dufy, 72, famed left-handed painter of gay race-track and beach scenes, admitted that "art and arthritis are the two most important things in my life. I must try to prevent one from killing the other...
...wear. He rebels against the efforts of his fiancee and her moneybags father to imprison him in a job as the head of a paper box factory. Then, with the help of his fiancee's younger sister (who loves him from the start) and a colorful assortment of race-track characters, he scrounges enough cash to turn a long shot into a Derby winner...
...shifty-eyed gambler who walked into Publisher Sevellon Brown's Providence papers last September had a frontpage story to spill. Pasquale Borino wanted to fill in the Journal and Evening Bulletin on a mob which he said was running the lottery, sweepstakes, race-track and baseball-pool rackets in Rhode Island. But when Bulletin City Editor Leo Son-deregger tried to track down Borino's leads, he found they cut across state lines and involved shadowy national figures...
...Beam. In Omaha, John Staskiewicz, suing Ak-Sar-Ben race-track officials, charged that the beam of light from the electric camera at the finish line caused the horse he was backing to bolt, lose the lead and finish third...