Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME [July 30] you ran a letter from a serviceman quoting a German woman who said " 'You speak of freedom ... of democracy. We know of your treatment of the American Japanese. We know of your race riots, the underhanded persecution of the Negro and the Jew. At least we Germans were not hypocritical. .'..'" The serviceman had no answer for her. I suggest...
While Republicans complained that they had been given a slow horse for a fast race, Democrats prepared to fight Bill Knowland next year. Their favored candidate was another newspaperman: New Dealer Manchester Boddy, dapper 54-year-old camellia king and publisher of Los Angeles' fast-stepping, politically potent Daily News...
...fell gallantly as human bullets. ... I also have a message to the young men at large. . . . You are the treasure of the nation. Attend properly to your peacetime circumstances. . . . Maintaining steadfastly the spirit of the Special Attack Corps, do your utmost for the revival of the Japanese race...
Full-scale plants, the committees urged, should be built at once. It was not known which processes were the best, so all the more promising ones should be started immediately. There was no time for failures, or even for pilot plants. The Nazis might be ahead in the race for Doomsday...
Even though the race was as much of a foregone finish as any horse race can be, some 14,000 fans were on hand. One of the biggest purses ($51,046.96) in the 20 years of the Hambletonian (14 times at Goshen) was at stake. A record 19 entries were in the field. But everyone knew that 18 of them scarcely had a chance against Titan, the trim cherry bay colt with the proud Hanover name, who trotted a record-breaking two-minute mile as a two-year-old last year. His driver was a champ too: gum-chewing Brooklyn...