Word: seven-year-old
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...seven-year-old Bogskar, Irish-bred (as usual) and owned by England's Lord Stalbridge, it was the race of his young life. In his first start over the toughest steeplechase course in the world (4½ miles), he had posted the second fastest time in its history, only one-fifth of a second slower than the record (9 min., 20| sec.) set by Golden Miller in 1934. "It was like riding in a wheel chair," said Jockey Marvin Jones, a 20-year-old Welshman who had never seen the awesome Aintree course before, had been given 48 hours...
Could his seven-year-old legs, never very sound even in his heyday, stand up for a mile-and-a-quarter...
Having firmly sketched his people in this first chapter, James Still tells of their japes and sorrows and near starvation, the rich archaic poetry of their talk and customs, in a clear, dry style as unsentimental as his seven-year-old's eyes. Before he is through with them-with Grandma, who at 78 still shucks her own corn; with Uncle Jolly, always laying up in jail awhile "or breaking ribs or taking direct action in affairs of property; with the neighbors, mean or kind, in mining camps and on hill farms-he has produced a work...
When Sarah Pizarro, who had been shopping, returned to her small apartment on New York's lower East Side, she told her seven-year-old son Tony she had a pain in her chest, was going to lie down for a moment...
Month ago Lincoln's Parent-Teacher Association held a meeting, and Dr. Del Manzo admitted that a merger was likely. Thereupon up rose Nelson Rockefeller (John D.'s grandson), a Lincoln alumnus whose seven-year-old son Rodman is now in the school, to announce that he was having an investigation of the school made by leading educators. Chief investigator: Dr. Luther H. Gulick, director of the Regents' recent $500,000 survey of New York's public schools...