Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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School of Experience. In Los Angeles, truant officers checking Santa Anita race track found no truant schoolchildren, but flushed bigger game: a hookey-playing Pasadena principal...
From iron-grey clouds a bitterly cold rain fell on 5,324 athletes from six nations. The Communist daily L'Humanite had invited them to Paris' Le Tremblay race track to spread international good will (and Communist Party publicity). The good will had failed to materialize...
...event of the day was a 2,500-meter race for "women aces," featuring 40 French entries and seven Russians. The Russian entries fell into two types: the gaunt, harassed and rangy (like Champion Irene Zaitseva), and those built like truck drivers (two of them were, in fact, truck drivers...
Before the race, the Russians had been briefed on the peculiar French starting technique. Because undisciplined French athletes cannot be made to line up quietly, the ideal French starter is one who can surprise his runners while they are all bending down to tie shoelaces. The pudgy little starter at Le Tremblay last week was one of the best. Casually, as great globules of water dripped from his mustache, he engaged the girls in a long, rambling conversation about the weather...
...years ago, at 51, Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer discovered that all work and no play were making him, a dull boy. He tried golf, and decided he was not the type. Then he bought a race horse, and found a plaything that appealed to his instinct for high drama and fascinating figures. He confided to friends: "I'm going to run this stable the way I run my studio -build it on personalities." But once the heady smell of the stables got him, things got out of hand...