Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Largely Ritualistic." Roper was so sure of his prediction* that he was not even planning to report his running campaign forecast. Said he: "This is not a hare and tortoise race, and neither is it a race between two closely matched thoroughbreds ; it is a very ordinary horse race -a race in which one horse already has a commanding lead . . . My whole inclination is to predict the election of Thomas E. Dewey by a heavy margin and devote my time and efforts to other things...
Brazil last week won a heat in its race with Argentina for a share in the cattle, oil and forest riches of landlocked Bolivia. With a 30-man entourage, Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra flew to the Bolivian town of San José de Chiquitos for a meeting with Bolivia's President Enrique Hertzog. The occasion: the opening of a Brazilian-built railroad connecting San José with Corumbá, Brazil-part of a system that will eventually stretch 2,500 miles across the continent from Santos to the Chilean port of Arica...
...shirtsleeves, sun-back dresses and shorts, 24,636 Chicago racing fans last week crowded into Washington Park, for the 38th running of a famous Midwest race, the American Derby. Only five horses were entered in the race: Calumet Farm's Citation just looked too good to beat...
...chances as everybody else seemed to be. It was the Triple Crown winner's first major start since he pulled a muscle two weeks after the Stars & Stripes Handicap (TIME, July 19), and Trainer Jones figured that Citation was still "ten days away from his best race." The morning of the Derby, Jones warned Jockey Eddie Arcaro: "Watch out for Papa Redbird," the horse that had just won the Arlington Classic. To be on the safe side, Jones entered another Calumet horse, Free America, a big, flashy, but unseasoned three-year-old whom Calumet is getting ready...
...Citation sort of waited for him and when he saw Papa he began to eat himself up. You're always a little worried, but I was never worried that I didn't have enough horse under me. He can beat any horse in any part of a race...