Word: spilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learned how to deal with rival jockeys. Off the track, Charlie is a shy little fellow with a guileless grin; on a horse, he is a hot-tempered terror. This year he got a nine-day suspension for slashing a jockey, got another ten days for causing a spill, was fined $200 for cussing out another rider, and was out of action for 48 days with a broken wrist after a three-horse pileup. His slashing style ("If you're not squawling at the jockeys, you're squawling at your horse") may have cost him some winners...
Somehow, though, news of the policy changes Yale was considering leaked to the Eli undergraduate radio station; the Yale Daily News, the college daily, checked the story with Hall and confronted with a fait accompli, he decided to spill everything Yale intended to do. This was unpleasant for Yale because it hadn't lined up a single other Ivy Group college to go along...
...stamp him with the stripe of genius: his wonderful letters. To those who automatically pigeonhole Adams as a crotchety Cassandra, Biographer-Critic Newton Arvin's springy sampling of the voluminous correspondence will come as an eye opener. Tart as alum and economical as Japanese prints, the letters also spill over with sensuous responses to life as scandalous in a proper Bostonian as living on capital...
Taking the ball on their own 41, the Yardlings marched all the way to the Worcester four on the running of George McDonald and Paul Murphy and in apportions 18 yard roughing penalty. Here, however, Worcester's Don Wellman broke through to spill Frank White for an 11 Yard loss, and the only real freshman threat had failed...
...rancher named Jim Tyler, is a pleasure-loving lad, overfond of broncho-riding, cattle, land and oil. His sister Kay has been converted at a Billy Graham prayer meeting, and she tries to get Jim to see the light. It's no use, until he gets a bad spill from a broncho and has to go to the hospital...