Word: runt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that basis, Bonnier's choice for editor was obvious. Well-born Carl-Adam Nycop, now 49, had been headed for a stuffy life of upper-class responsibility when his fellow junior aristocrats at Sweden's swank Lundsberg boarding school began to mock him as a runt (he is now 5 ft. 7 in.). Nycop was so embittered by the attacks that he rebelled against his convention-bound background, to become a news-and-be-damned reporter. In 1938 he was tapped by Bonnier to start the LiFE-like picture weekly Ssee, soon showed an executive's firm...
...release in the next couple of weeks, tops that by a long quarter-hour. In such company, Producer Michael Todd's mighty slice of Jules Verne's 19th century globaloney, since it is only two hours and 55 minutes long (not counting intermission), seems a relative runt; but what the thing lacks in length it more than makes up in what showmen call "holler...
...barrel-chested, four-year-old Italian wonder horse, unbeaten in his 13 previous starts, had his work cut out to put away the Queen's own High Veldt and win the $78,820 King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, richest race on British turf. Once the runt of the stables of Marchese Mario Incisa della Rochetta, Ribot has now earned $195,000, and his short, ungainly frame looks so attractive to foreign horsemen that the marchese has received offers up to $1,428,000 for him, a world-record price for any race horse. But Ribot has been...
Passport to Prominence. In the depth of the Depression, George Craig went to Brazil to practice law with his father, and took whatever he could get-potatoes, meat, eggs and, once, three runt pigs-in lieu of cash fees. He became G.O.P. Chairman of Clay County, tried to get the nomination for lieutenant governor, and then got his passport to political success: in 1942 the U.S. Army Reserve called R.O.T.C. Lieutenant Craig to active duty in World...
...Representative Kit Clardy, who used to go around Washington muttering about "those Communists in the White House," ran on a platform of "I will vote as I please." Michiganders decided Clardy wouldn't vote at all-at least not in the House. And Illinois' C. W. ("Runt") Bishop was defeated after a 14-year House career marked only by his having been the manager of the Republican House baseball team...