Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Australian slangsters apply "dinkum," meaning "genuine," "the real thing," to anything from a sermon to a race horse. Nearest U.S. equivalent: "the McCoy...
...main trouble was that the convention's main job was finished before it met. The hundreds of empty rooms in Chicago hotels were silent testimony to Tom Dewey's preconvention strength. Americans will travel a thousand miles to see a horse race but they won't look out the window to see a certainty...
...Solons of the National Amateur Athletic Union solemnly decided last week that Claude ("Buddy") Young, famed University of llinois sprinter, could not call himself the 1944 A.A.U. 100-meter champion-even though he had won the race in a handy 10.5 seconds. Reason: Young and the five other Negroes in the 100-meter final were all disqualified for jumping the gun twice in the course of five false starts. The race was finally run as an exhibition just to please the crowd...
...seems incredible, therefore, that a nation which has been so consistently true to the impulses of human kindness and the teachings of the Catholic Church should now yield to a false, pagan code of tyranny because of blood and race. How can men of good will fail to heed those solemn words of Pope Pius XI: 'Abraham is called our patriarch, our ancestor. Anti-Semitism is not compatible with the sublime reality of this text. It is a movement in which we Christians cannot share. Spiritually we are Semites...
...postage stamps of the country bear the figure of Mary, the Mother of Mankind. It would be all the more tragic, therefore, if a people so devoted to Mary, the Jewish Maiden who was the Mother of the Messiah, freely countenance cruel laws calculated to despoil and annihilate the race from which Jesus and Mary sprang...