Word: skittishly
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Churchill Downs in the pre-Derby dawn is a heady place. Drifting wood smoke, dampened by morning dew, cuts the sharp, ammoniac smell of the stables. From the tarns, where skittish thoroughbreds are breakfasting, comes the metallic clank of feed tubs, or an occasional hoof thump. Sleepy-eyed grooms and exercise boys, clutching their mugs of coffee, shuffle through the shadows...
Temperamental Difference. In Long Beach, Calif., Lorenzo T. Foster, 84, explained to police why he killed his old friend, William T. Judd, 74 - "Judd was too young and skittish for me to associate with...
Beautician Arden has a lot of fun naming her horses. Beaugay got hers "because the horse was so beautiful and gay." A little too gay sometimes, the skittish filly often snaps at her self-styled "sugar mama," won't have anything to do with...
Returning refreshed from Hyde Park, and no longer skittish about saying that he had been there (see PRESS), Franklin Roosevelt plunged into a full week...
Slow-talking, 36-year-old Farmer Butters did not launch his odd scheme without encountering certain difficulties. First he had to find some buffalo. The Government finally agreed to sell him a herd then roaming the Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. Then bankers were skittish about lending him the purchase price. Butters mortgaged his two farms and bought the herd...