Word: stops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since announcing his candidacy in December, Wallace has spoken 23 times in nine states to some 75,000 people (not counting radio audiences). Who were the people? Wechsler reported: "At virtually every stop the local left-wing stalwarts run the arrangements. It is the biggest show they have ever staged. But the political complexion of the audiences is definitely broader. It is a cross section of American discontent and insecurity...
...lonely road, another car crowded him to a stop. Two masked men got out, reached in from both sides, and beat McCabe with spiked lead pipes. Two hours later a motorist found him unconscious in a ditch. He had a broken arm, broken legs, a fractured kneecap, deep gashes all over his body...
...morning last week, before the dew was off the bluegrass at Kentucky's Keeneland track, a bay colt broke and ran. Stop watches ticked away. The naked eye could tell what the watches verified: that the bay colt was really covering ground. Coaltown worked five furlongs in the fastest training time-:58 2/5-ever run at Keeneland. Warren Wright's Calumet Farm, which seems to have a monopoly on racing's fastest horses (Armed, Bewitch, Citation, Fervent and Faultless), had developed another...
...caromed off into a roadway. But Claude recovered, made one over par on the hole. He got another 70. The early pacemaker, Lloyd Mangrum, had run afoul of Augusta's notorious greens, and dropped behind. Playing those greens was like putting down a marble staircase and trying to stop the ball on the tenth step. They were slick, big (sometimes calling for 100-ft. putts) and agonizingly full of dips, bumps and slopes. Even South Africa's Bobby Locke, regarded as today's best putter, moaned over them, and went astray. Ben Hogan blew...
Keys, coins, and dirty combs no longer faze these battered operatives; and if undergraduates would only stop loading their suits with such items as false teeth, gold fillings, and diamond breeches, spring would probably last all year round, they declare...