Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sung's bills passed unopposed." Delegates had set up an Interim Peoples Committee and voted a platform which included extermination of pro-Japanese and antidemocratic elements, confiscation of land, extermination of imperialistic ideas. "Plans were drafted," Chawng Lo proclaimed, "for the benefit of the human race...
...lady who sells face powder and buys horseflesh, Elizabeth Arden Graham, money is no object. She paid $34,000 for Colony Boy, $26,000 for Star Pilot, and with the help of her topflight trainer became racing's biggest pursewinner ($589,170) last year. Somehow, a horse named Knockdown, costing only $2,000, sneaked into her lush stables. Last week, in the richest race for three-year-olds ever run, the poor relation led all the way, and romped home the winner in the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby...
Driver Bill Linney, his two bobbers and his brakeman, could have run it with their eyes closed. His brakeman's carefully practiced pushoff (25% of a bobsled race) gave Linney's team a valuable one-tenth second. They rounded hairpin Shady Corner at approximately 57 m.p.h., zoomed around Zig Zag's treacherous S curve. (A General Electric eye timer clocked them doing 118 m.p.h. at the finish line.) Linney's final four-heat time-4:25.96-was 1.66 seconds short of the course record he set two weeks ago, but an impressive five seconds ahead...
Nobody had come close to Linney's record all winter; he had won all but one race at Lake Placid. Some of those who tried, on too little practice, had landed in the hospital. The course, because of unusual weather, was icy and fast. One sled had failed to make Shady Corner, two had catapulted into space at Zig Zag (where the 1932 German Olympic team met disaster) and sent the bobbers to the hospital. In bobsledding, attention to detail is not only prizewinning but healthy...
...steaks. Crewmen, stroked by R.M.A. Bourne (a prisoner of the Germans for three years, whose father and grandfather had stroked and later coached the Oxford boat), averaged a puny 154 Ibs. Prewar average: 180 Ibs. Last week Oxford ordered the lightest boat in its history, for the 96th race with Cambridge March...