Word: sore
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third, rain plays havoc with the chances of a favored selection. Sore-legged horses and horses with small hooves (sons and daughters of Olympia, for example) improve their performance over a wet track. The extent of the rainfall can also be significant. On a sloppy track the front-runner prospers. In gummy footing--good, muddy, slow, heavy--a stretch runner has the edge, provided he does not mind glop being kicked...
CARLYN PROFIT is a sore filly who drops again in class for a last ditch effort to capture the winners purse, LITTLE MISS MAULER has run close to males, MISS LENOR shows some speed...
...sore distressed. Months of European travel were motivated by intellectual curiosity; perhaps I have sinned. Henceforth, I shall avidly devote my energies to outwitting airline and customs employees, diligently hunting American food and drinks and, while my wife shops, perhaps engage in a bit of titillating research on new strains of VD. Oh, woe is me for a misspent life...
Long Unsuspected. For virtually every human being outside the womb, rubella is a trivial complaint. It usually causes a mild fever, a fleeting rash, a slight headache, occasionally a cough and a sore throat. Some cases are so mild that they pass unnoticed, yet all apparently confer lifelong immunity. Unlike mumps and common measles, rubella seldom evokes severe ill ness in the 20% of people who escape it in childhood and catch it as adults...
...Knight, a two-year-old champion, has been trained since the Florida Derby like a sore horse, and has run that way. In the Belmont, should he be entered, he might regain his Florida form. Running in front unhampered by challenging early speed he could hold off the late runners. This is the only way he could win. 10 per cent chance...