Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...embittering to fight the "superior race" myth halfway round the world, only to see its fundamental tenets being flagrantly promoted at home. It would seem more in accord with justice to deport and dispossess not Japanese-Americans, but all members of the Japanese Exclusion League...
Thirteen months later, the 37th landed with MacArthur in Lingayen Gulf to begin the race south for Manila. In three days it covered 50 miles. On its flank raced the spectacular ist Cavalry, rolling on wheels. Beightler swore: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros...
...Kabyles are a branch of the Berbers, the indigenous white race of North Africa. The Arabs conquered them in the 7th Century...
Harvard's crew wore handlebar mustaches (false) and foolish grins. Radcliffe's crew, in white shirts and red ribbons, looked deadly serious. The race was to be a half-mile on the Charles River, down stream...
...mile title-holder (4.17) from Southern Cal was beating workhorse Jim Rafferty by 10 yards in 4.25. Sink, who is currently attending the Navy Supply School here, has been working out under Jaakko for several weeks, and it was Jaakko who gave him instructions on how to run his race against Rafferty...