Word: stall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Citation knew he was going to race that day. He failed to get the usual hay in his late morning feeding. Said Groom Dan Barnette: "He squealed and reared up in his stall just like a kid after being told he's going to his first circus." It was a good sign. Citation was ready to run for the $100,000 Hollywood Gold Cup at Inglewood, Calif...
...Lamont is unwilling to install temporary chemical facilities, at least the stall lights should be dimmed after mealtimes. This way earlycomers will be unable to go over reading notes or scribble on the walls while less fortunate compatriots suffer. H. G. Howard...
...Czech army major, had testified that she spied on U.S. Army Occupation Forces in Germany for the Czechoslovak government shortly before the 1948 Communist coup. Under the law, aliens may be excluded on a reasonable suspicion of espionage or subversion-conclusive proof is not required. Mrs. Knauff can still stall off exclusion for a while by two further appeals, but the Department of Justice is just as determined to keep her out as she is to get in. Officials say that their entire case against her cannot yet be told...
Owner Goetz kept hoping the vets could save Your Host, even though the injury was almost impossible to treat. But the chestnut colt, hobbling painfully about his stall on three legs (his right foreleg swollen and foreshortened), grew steadily worse. Last week, after the veterinarians agreed that there was nothing more to be done, Your Host was condemned...
...flight from Lima to Panama, a five-year-old stallion named Canastos got frightened and kicked out the side of his stall. The Andes Airlines pilot knew what he had to do. Reluctantly, he fired two slugs from his revolver into Canastos' forehead. Then he brought his plane down on an emergency field...