Word: roan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Love That Lyndon." Aside from this exchange, the Kefauver-Stevenson performance for the week had another highlight: a face-to-face encounter in the Los Banos, Calif. spring festival parade, with Adlai rigged out as a cowboy on a roan horse and Estes silk-suited in a Lincoln convertible. Even so, their general pitch was so routine that Democratic eyes and ears began to wander...
...place where buses are haunted by vengeful spirits of killed pedestrians and passengers delightedly applaud when a driver outraces a rival, where the press seriously reports the latest woman to give birth to miraculous twins, one a man-child and the other "the loveliest, dainty little four-legged roan mare that the neighbors have ever seen...
...After the arrival of the English colonists, tidewater Virginia became the prime breeding ground for fine horses and fox-hunting cavaliers. Like most plantation owners, George Washing ton built a big stable (130 horses) and a reputation as a breeder, once raced his Arabian thoroughbred Magnolia against a roan colt owned by Thomas Jefferson at Alexandria's Jockey Club. (Magnolia lost.) From New England came the fast little Narragansett pacer (one was ridden by Paul Revere) and the Morgan horse whose progeny, crossbred with other strains, produced every type from draft horses to racing trotters...
...Among the year's variations: Santa Claus Rides a Strawberry Roan, Missus Santa Claus, How Can Santa Come to Puerto Rico...
...close to the cabin, avoided the neighbors, whiled away the time with TV and table tennis. Thompson and Steinberg had gone to some pains to alter their appearances. Thompson, who had gained about 30 Ibs., had sprouted a foppish mustache, tinted his hair and mustache strawberry blond, his eyebrows roan red. Steinberg had a fresh crew cut and an angry little mustache, was pounds thinner than he had been in his last public appearance...