Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sight at Tanforan (in his stall) but not out of mind was Shannon II-a horse close to the heart of every California race fan. Next to Citation, he is probably the fastest horse in the world today. Shannon is a seven-year-old bay stallion, Australian by birth and friendly as an overgrown puppy. Unlike Citation, everything about him is controversial-even his pedigree...
Here the game was decided. Winthrop tightened up and held Adams for downs on the seven. With only 40 seconds left to play, Winthrop tried to stall the game on their goal line until the whistle, but Adams defensive strongman Tim Wall is broke through the Puritan wall and dumped an end run in the end zone for a safety...
...discovered that his fellow furriers were keeping their stockrooms bare, rushed home and cut his prices 15-20%. Shoe manufacturers, some of whom had already cut production, were also talking of post-Christmas price cuts as high as $1 a pair. Many another manufacturer who last year had to stall off customers was now ready to deliver at a day's notice...
...meeting also heard a variety of letters objecting to adoption of the Salton-stall Committee's report...
...very end, the nature of the miracle is revealed. It turns out to have been a talking horse with a very beautiful and exalted message for the townspeople. The audience neither hears the horse nor sees him; for them, there is only an intense white light above his stall. The horse dies at the end of the play. The play, a kind of Passing of the Third Feedbox Back, died at the end of the week...