Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frantic hope to recoup my lost two dollars. Candy Spots in the best three-year old in the nation. His Derby loss was the first of his career, and it might have been attributable to a surprisingly poor ride by Willie Shoemaker. Three times during the race "Shoe" got Candy Spots into a tight squeeze where he had to be checked, and this might have thrown the California colt off enough to cost him the victory...
...faster (35 knots underwater), and more silently than any submarine ever built. Two other Thresher-type subs. Permit and Plunger, have since been launched, and 22 others are under construction. Thresher's teardrop-shaped hull had no flat surfaces; when venturing on her deck, crewmen wore special adhesive shoe soles. The hull was speckled with more than 1,000 tiny listening devices. She could travel 60,000 miles without refueling, stay out three months without support. The mission for which Thresher was built: to seek out enemy submarines with her keen underwater ears and destroy them...
...state invitations at the rate of 50 per week and concentrates his public appearances in Massachusetts-every major parade on St. Patrick's day and so on. He actively works for the relief of the fishing industry through capital construction grants and research vessels, and for textile and shoe manufacturers hit by imports. His office, unlike the generally bare offices of the other freshmen, is cluttered with Massachusetts' manufacturers and historical reminders of her past. Missiles, duck decoys, colonial furniture, and photographs all overwhelm the visitor with his intention of doing more for Massachusetts...
Neither proved to have an ironclad alibi for the day. Sacco, a worker in a shoe factory, had taken the day off to go to Boston and get a passport for his trip to Italy. Vanzetti was a fish-peddler and could only rely on the word of his customers for an alibi...
Finally, a Portuguese jailbird named Celestino Madeiros, who had just appealed his own conviction for murder, passed a note to a prison guard: "I hear by confess to being in the South Braintree shoe company crime and Sacco and Vanzetti was not in said crime...