Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...front of his rickety wagon, an old gypsy said: "The past is dead. Gypsies cease their wandering. The race is the same but the spirit is going. Too many gypsies have grown rich. Even Coucou settled down. No one can take his place just now, maybe never." The old gypsy's grandchildren were busy admiring the shiny new trailer of a rich gypsy family camped alongside. On a lot nearby, young gum-chewing gypsies jitterbugged...
...Union of South Africa, was out of office. South Africa, which had been considered safe in the fold of the British Commonwealth (and which last year lent ?80 million in gold as a prop for Britain's sterling), had suddenly embarked on a perverse, isolationist, acutely race-conscious road that might lead to secession from the Commonwealth and to maltreatment and oppression of the country's 9,000,000 non-Europeans...
Predikant to Politics. In the general elections last week, Jan Smuts's United Party-which stood for Commonwealth solidarity and relative liberalism on the race question-was nosed out by the Re-United'National Party. The Smuts party won 65 seats in the lower house of parliament; the Nationalists...
Unlike Georgia's tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Spec Towns, who won the no-meters high hurdles in Berlin in 1936, Bones drives hard into a hurdle. Towns used to float over them. A notoriously slow beginner, Towns seldom got into the race until he reached the third hurdle. Dillard believes that the first seven strides (before taking the first hurdle in the 120 highs) are all-important. Says he: "They say I am unorthodox. But I figure any form that gets you there fastest is orthodox form...
...years?" The two wonder horses-Citation and Coaltown-were the same age (3), had the same daddy (Bull Lea) and the same owner (Calumet Farm). Apparently, each was the other's only competition: it seemed a sheer waste of horsepower to put both of them on the same race track...