Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agata had other ideas. When her father was deported for rubbing out a rival, she took charge of his gang, whose activities included bank robbery, kidnapping, blackmail, extortion. Soon she muscled in on the Rosario race track, cleaned up by fixing the races. With her head triggerman, Arturo Placeres, Agata liked to speed through the streets of Rosario in a black Packard sedan with impressive (but faked) number plates...
...first time in its 40-year history, Cleveland's Ministerial Association (representing virtually all Protestant denominations) chose a Negro president. He was Dr. Wade H. McKinney, pastor of Antioch Baptist Church. Last year Dr. McKinney investigated Detroit's race riots for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, later wrote a report which Cleveland's Mayor Frank J. Lausche used in organizing that city's Committee on Democratic Practices...
...Greyhound Pig" is believed extinct, but Mr. Harding revived the memory of a sporting classic recorded in Sharkey's Racing Calendar for 1794. That year a "Greyhound Pig" was pitted against a race horse, the pig's backers being allowed to egg it on by whistling and shouting at the halfway mark and finish line. The pig won by a few feet, its owner taking...
...fastest schoolboy in the nation won his 40th straight race last week. For the third year in a row he won both the 100-and 220-yd. dashes in the Texas State meet. Last year he ran 100 yards just one-tenth of a second slower than the world record...
Pensive just missed being scratched. Only a fortnight ago, he had been beaten by a 30-to-1 outsider. But the veteran team of Trainer Ben Jones and Owner Warren Wright, who won the Kentucky Derby with Whirlaway in 1941, finally decided to race their chestnut colt. The decision was worth $65,675 to Wright ($6,600 of it to the jockey) and paid Pensive's backers $16.20, $7.20 and $4.60. Despite wartime travel restrictions and an ODT decree that only local residents could attend, some 65,000 got to Churchill Downs in time to wager...