Word: rans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was a predicament, all right, although Dewey's course was not necessarily cynical or even illogical. In order to pursue a program, he had to exercise political control over the committees and the men who ran them. A Democratic-controlled Senate could pretty well sabotage a legislative program. A Republican Senate would make things much clearer. Dewey would then not have an alibi for failures, as Harry Truman had had with a Republican-controlled 80th Congress...
...Bevin made an important statement on Berlin. It was on Fleet Street's front pages within the hour. But in Switzerland, R.H.S. Crossman, Laborite M.P.-journalist on holiday, had to wait 24 hours to read what Bevin had said. Crossman cursed the incompetence of the Swiss press, which ran long book reviews and leisurely think pieces on its newsless front pages. Then he got to thinking it over, and took the curse back...
...post parade, wanted no part of a race that day. He got left at the post. He really couldn't be blamed: in Europe they didn't have these newfangled starting gates, the horses raced on grass instead of dirt, and most of the tracks ran clockwise instead of counterclockwise. The Aga Khan's Nathoo did a little better. For a mile and a furlong, he hung on the coattails of the leaders before giving it up as a bad job. He was beaten by 31½ lengths...
...Citation ran like a railroad train. When Jockey Eddie Arcaro pushed the throttle, Citation, who runs with great economy, came whistling down the stretch, using just enough steam to stay two lengths ahead of his nearest rival, Phalanx, and pick up $75,600. It put him just behind Stymie ($911,335), the biggest money-winning horse of all time. Citation's total...
Roche played beautiful ball all the way. His punting was superb, with one long shot to the Dartmouth four-yard line far and away the best of the day. He ran well many times, and his touchdown pass to Ken O'Donnell was a masterpiece of timing and execution...