Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dignified way in which Ike Eisenhower had bowed out from the presidential race last January had only added to his stature. And the fact that he had left a small loophole in his statement excited, rather than dimmed, his supporters' hopes...
...senatorial primary fight last winter when Mister Crump gave the boot to servile Senator Tom Stewart and hand-picked John Mitchell, a hill-country judge, as his candidate (TIME, Dec. 22). Stewart decided to run anyway. Few politicians gave Kefauver much of a chance in a three-cornered race...
...Singapore's Bukit Timah race track the British wet their upper lips with gin & bitters and kept them stiff even when Miss Papillon, a 70-1 long shot, romped home in the third race. That was bad, but the news from across the Johore Causeway to the Malayan mainland was worse...
...Boss. Howard Fuller, able salesman and yachtsman (his cutter Gesture won the Bermuda race two years ago), became president in 1943, when Arthur Fuller upped himself to chairman. The new president took over a business which had cut its normal civilian output drastically to make brushes for the cleaning of guns. To meet the demand he made the company tops in the field of brush-making machinery, developed new brushes for industrial uses. He also began to use girls to reinforce his war-depleted sales staff. The experiment was only partly successful; lugging a sample case with 36 different brushes...
...three years, British athletes had gone from bad to worse. They just could not win. Even their race horses got beaten by interlopers from France. Last week, when 275 golfers teed off in the cherished British Open, few Britons had much hope. Their best bet was acid Henry Cotton, now an old veteran of 41. It had been 14 long years since he had cracked a ten-year U.S. monopoly by winning his first British Open...