Word: selectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Racing Association in 1950, only nine horses, from Sir Barton in 1919 to Citation in 1948, had earned the right to have their names engraved on the emblem of the Triple Crown of American racing. After Citation, 25 long years passed before Secretariat added another name to that most select circle, and through the long drought, one question bedeviled breeders, owners, trainers and bettors alike: Why were there no Triple Crown champions...
...nation's first regularly published humor columnist, and Rudulph dug up an early example of his work.) "Everybody was happy to discuss Baker," says Rudulph. But no one was more pleased than Syndicated Columnist Art Buchwald, Baker's colleague in the American Academy of Humor Columnists, a select and wholly frivolous group. Summed up Buchwald: "Russ should be on TIME'S cover, because he doesn't have too many more good years...
...couldn't help but think that Epps looked like a worried camp counselor underneath his cool veneer. For two hours, he was to be in charge of these Big Guns, a select group of men and women Harvard asks to go out and beat some equally select bushes for the University's upcoming capital fund drive...
...possess your skills, but don't be possessed by them. You are entering a very select group. You have a monopoly on medical care. Please be careful not to abuse this power that you have over the rest...
...agonizing question of "What price survival?" The cast is exemplary, and Jon De Vries as the tormented Keseberg sculptures a portrait of hell in ice. Toward the end, Polsky resorts to melodramatic devices that break the play's stark tension, but he is a welcome addition to the select company of playwriting naturals...