Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which he had once considered an overwhelming burden. He felt that a challenge had been thrown out and that he must meet it. In 1940 most political observers had counted him out as a candidate for re-election as Senator from Missouri, but he stuck out the race and won. He felt that he was in a comparable situation...
...quick sales. In Shanghai a housepainter insisted on payment in advance lest the price charged for the whole job fail to cover the cost of paint. Most salaries were geared to a monthly cost-of-living index, but the index ran hopelessly far behind prices in the spiraling race to oblivion, and China's housewives well knew that months would pass before present prices were reflected in their husbands' paychecks. Since to keep their workers on the job at all employers had to supply them with food and transportation, many firms collapsed under the crushing overhead...
...Milwaukee, Herb McKenley, long-legged Jamaica Negro, ran the 400-meter National A.A.U. championship in 45.9 (slicing a tenth of a second off the world record). Next day, Negro Harrison Dillard lost his first race in 83 starts; he overdid himself by running four races in little over one hour, lost two finals...
...first year (1921), he rode more winning mounts than any other jockey in Australia. Moving on to England, he dumfounded horseplayers by winning without using much whip. But bettors disliked him, because when the Crocodile saw he couldn't win a race, he often stopped trying. "If the owner wants me to place, I try, but I don't like to ride a horse into the ground for nothing." English fans nicknamed him "brigand"; in France, he is called voleur (thief) more often than le roi des jockeys...
...ethics for comic books, and got ready to name a czar. Among the code's provisions: 1) no "sexy, wanton comics"; 2) no glorifying of crime; 3) no "scenes of sadistic torture"; 4) no "vulgar and obscene language"; 5) no glamorizing of divorce; 6) no religious or race ridicule...