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...Fantastic!" exclaimed Howard Samuels, president of New York City's Off-Track Betting Corp. "Another big winner." Samuels, who likes to refer to himself as Howie the Horse, was not speaking of Cañonero IIs stunning victory in the Preakness, the second jewel in racing's Triple Crown. He was talking about the $1,151,686 that New Yorkers wagered on the race through O.T.B. "Once more," said Samuels, sounding more like Howie the Hustler, "it's been proved that this city can truly be Fun City...
...pond, known as Muddy Pond to residents, is situated at the rear of 380 South St., Jamaica Plain, next to the Harvard-owned Arnold Arboretum. It has no fence around it and is not used for any arboretum-related activities. Local residents refer to it as "that smelly mudhole...
...letter includes an ambiguous reference to the possibility that murder can flow from a political kidnaping and adds: "When I refer to murder, it is not to prohibit it absolutely ... it is merely to observe that one has set the precedent, and that later on, when govm't resistance to this sort of thing stiffens, men will be killed...
...story is told through the mind of Avinga, a kind of Eskimo Ishmael who finally finds himself alone after the disintegration of his community. To Avinga and his fellow Eskimos, the rescued white men are almost fascinatingly ugly. They refer to them as kalunait (literally, "people with the heavy eyebrows"), the legendary offspring of a wayward Eskimo girl and a sled dog. Yet they tolerate the white men's minor barbarities and breaches of courtesy with indulgent understanding...
...witness testified that Petrey had participated in a chant to "Let the Assholes Speak" when Archibald Cox '34 was speaking. Noting that Cox was also trying to quiet the crowd, Countryman asked the witness if "you normally refer to the people you agree with as assholes...