Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaten in 35 years. Furthermore, the opposition looked feeble. The Union des Electeurs had put up Roland Corbeil, a Social Crediter. The Progressive Conservative was Etienne Duhamel, who was a candidate only because of the new Progressive Conservative policy of entering a runner, no matter how lame, in every race...
Ohio's other hopeful, John Bricker, cried: "It's a wide-open race. Anyone can come in." California's Earl Warren was still reluctant, though the liberal, Democratic Los Angeles Daily News had begun tub-thumping on his behalf...
Despite its elephantine proportions, the double-decked bus was designed for a purely hypothetical race of men with an average weight of 98 pounds and an average height of 5 ft. ½ in. A normal man cannot stand in one without getting his hat knocked off, or assuming a stooped posture, not unlike that of an Oriental criminal awaiting the headsman...
...nevertheless, in a very serious mood. Gardner jots down in a notebook great phrases by such men as Edmund Burke and Lincoln. He also likes to make apothegms of his own. One of them: "The common law of England represents the sifted and garnered common sense of our race." Last week he declared: "I accepted this post because I believe it to be at the crossroads of both Eastern and Western philosophy and of capitalistic and collective economy...
Queen Elizabeth, returning home in a car after a dinner party, had to be escorted home by a corps of bobbies with torches (British for flashlights). At Wembley Stadium, 4,000 hockey fans, marooned for the night, snuggled against one another in the grandstand. At New Cross race track the greyhounds lost sight of the rabbit. In the Channel the S.S. America groped and bellowed mournfully, unable to make port. Other ships ran aground. In Southampton, Ivor Thomas and his fiancée Elithia Zinck-just in from Bombay-drove off a dock and were drowned...