Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death of a Promise. Jan Smuts's appearance at U.N. recalled that in 1919, as head of a mandates committee, he had implored the Paris Peace Conference to "demonstrate that world . . . opinion is in favor of the ultimate self-government of all peoples, without distinction as to race, religion or color...
...while soldiers ransacked their homes, threatened with clubbed rifles any who protested. Ten foreign correspondents were whisked from the scene to the headquarters of a ruddy-faced, blond-mustached lieutenant colonel, who told them their presence was "embarrassing" to his men. The colonel called the Jews "'a despicable race," said (according to one report): "You know our boys sometimes use the butts of their rifles...
...officer, Lieut. General Sir Evelyn Barker, left Jerusalem on a "transfer" home. Barker, after the King David Hotel bombing, had disqualified himself with a vicious letter to division commanders, in which he urged a boycott of Jewish merchants because that would "be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes...." His recall encouraged moderate Zionist leaders, but extremists were unappeased. They provided the occasion for Webb's outburst, exploding three bombs in rapid succession near troop roadblocks and injuring eleven Tommies, one civilian...
...Which came first would be the subject of noisy, heated and sometimes liquid debate until their big showdown next week. Probably next in line, since both Texas and Tennessee dropped from the unbeaten ranks last week, was-of all things-an Ivy League team. Powerful Pennsylvania stayed in the race by sinking Navy...
...horse with the blond tail was born on a 970,000-acre Texas ranch, nobody had ever heard much about his father-but Stymie's greatgrandfather on both sides of the family was Man o' War. When he ran three years ago in a $1,500 claiming race, Stymie sank about as low as bigtime race horses can sink. Last week, by galloping home in the Gallant Fox Handicap at Jamaica, Long Island, Stymie became the second horse in history to earn more than a half-million dollars...