Word: reined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formidable knight, the pair work their way over to the edge of a cliff. Here, oddly, it is Taylor who gets thrown to the floor of the ravine. Miraculously, he lands in a bed of quicksand; and on hearing his affectionate call, his horse trots over, throws him a rein, and pulls him out. It is certain that no writers in Hollywood, save those with especial creative talent, were permitted to work on the scenario of this film...
...economy-minded housewife who had always wanted free rein in a supermarket was turned loose with her family of six, loaded up with $69.87 worth of fancy groceries...
...reason for the resurgence of syphilis is that wide publicity for quickie cures has made potential victims careless. Also, said New York University's Dx. Charles R. Rein, federal and state funds for detecting and treating the disease have been cut back too fast. Some state laboratories are no longer making the wholesale, routine blood tests that they used to make. The result is that many early cases are being missed, and will be neglected until they do perhaps lasting damage...
...Baltimore, Greentree Stable's Tom Fool, top handicap horse of 1953, ran his undefeated streak to ten straight by taking the $50,000 Pimlico Special, under a tight rein, in the track-record time of 1:55 4/5 for the mile and three-sixteenths. ¶ In Tokyo, Yankee Pitcher Ed Lopat's All-Star baseball team, billed as the "greatest array of major-league stars ever to visit Japan," was staggered, 5-4, in its opening game, by the Mainichi Orions, a second-division club in the Pacific League. Among the fallen stars: Yankees Yogi Berra and Billy...
...after Ataturk's death, he was succeeded as President, legally and peacefully, by his handpicked successor, forceful soldier-administrator Ismet Inonu. For the next dozen years, the Inonu regime tried to maintain the Ataturk pattern. The people were kept on short rein, given few civil and personal liberties, and those grudgingly. But the momentum of progress continued...