Word: sam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Halfway through his recently completed eight-month tour of Europe, Associate Editor and Foreign News Writer Sam Welles received the following cable from his boss, TIME's Foreign News Editor Max Ways...
...Keep on being a tourist, Sam. The intelligent American tourist is a greatly underrated creature...
...Shot. The odds on Man o' War were so prohibitive that few people bothered to bet on him-though Plunger "Chicago" O'Brien once wagered $100,000 on him at 1-to-100, and picked up an easy $1,000. Big Red's owner, Pennsylvanian Sam Riddle, once refused a $1,000,000 offer for his wonder horse. Riddle retired him to stud in the prime of his career. "Improving the breed," now a worn-penny phrase spoken cynically around the tracks, had meaning in Man o' War's case. Only the choicest mares were...
Unseen Harvests: A Treasury of Teaching (Macmillan; $5) covers everything from Confucius' China to James Thurber's U.S.A., in poems, essays, snitches from novels and snatches of conversation ("There is now less flogging in our great schools," complained Sam Johnson, "but then, there is less learned there; so that what the boys get at one end, they lose at the other"). But most of the chapters are rather unhappy reminiscences...
...inept or too deep for the average man to understand. Saturday Kenny O'Donnell, who had already missed with two point blank range tosses, elected to throw another on his own 34 with third down and less than a yard to go. The pass went into the small of Sam Adams back...