Word: six-year-old
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...Six-year-old Jane Reis (rhymes with geese) of Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., is scarcely able to write her own name, but she had 16 "poems" published last week in the Saturday Review of Literature. Her mother had jotted down Jane's offhand utterings, proudly showed them off to friends. Professor Lionel Trilling of Columbia pronounced them good, got SRL interested. Sample...
...then he tried the outside. Buzfuz was quitting, and the pacesetter, Fighting Frank, did not appear to have much fight left. In the stretch, Texas Sandman took the lead, wobbled a bit toward the rail, but brazened it out to win first place and $45,150. For a six-year-old, that was pretty good: almost 180 times his $250 purchase price as a yearling. A $2 win ticket on him was worth...
...climax of the party, for any six-year-old anyway, will be the arrival of Santa Claus whose flight from the North Pole, according to PBH officials, has been specially arranged with the U. N. Security Council and all the Christmas-spirited nations involved...
Arctic Defense. Most of the talking and planning has been done, since last January, by the six-year-old U.S.-Canadian Permanent Joint Defense Board, which meets irregularly (alternating between Montreal and New York) and makes proposals to Washington and Ottawa. Some of its proposals have been routine and noncontroversial. Others are knotty and controversial. Knottiest: the defense of the Canadian Arctic. What is under discussion is whether the U.S. and Canada shall i) man Arctic bases (some wartime ones, some to be built) with troops of both nations and 2) standardize weapons, all the way from aircraft to rifles...
Australia's pride was Bernborough, a six-year-old stallion that was being talked about the way the Aussies once talked about Phar Lap. Bernborough, who stands a whopping 17 hands high, won 15 straight races in Australia before he finally was beaten...