Word: stud
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sire happens to be Nantallah and the mare is Rough Shod II. Neither ever amounted to much on the track, but they are all business in the barn. The first product of their union was Ridan, a huge colt who won $635,074 before he was retired to stud in 1963. Next came Lt. Stevens, who is still racing as a four-year-old and has won $240,949. Then there is Moccasin. A strapping chestnut filly, Moccasin is two years old, and has been to the post seven times. She has won all seven races, by a total margin...
...French had won the war. But what price victory? The day before the race, Owner Jean Ternynck, a Lille textile manufacturer, had agreed to lease Sea Bird to Kentucky's John Galbreath for stud duty in the U.S.-at $1,500,000 for five years. If Ternynck had waited another day, experts agreed, he undoubtedly could have demanded twice as much...
Staggered Studs. Instead of placing sleeping and living areas wall to wall, the builders separate them with rows of closets in which the clothes themselves act as insulation. The studs in the Fiberglas-insulated walls are staggered, so that no single stud touches both sides of the wall, therefore cannot conduct noise. On the ceiling, sound is absorbed by 2 in. of glass wool surfaced with vinyl. To reduce the clatter of heels, vinyl is laid over an asbestos-and-foam cushion on the floor. Other floors have wall-to-wall carpeting with extra-thick underpadding
More specifically, the story concerns Stephen Rojack, a war hero from Harvard (the "one intellectual in America's history with a Distinguished Service Cross"), ex-congressman, T.V. personality, professor of existentialist psychology with voodooish overtones, author, boxer, and stud non-pareil...
...track records -and broke down. Or consider the case of Christopher Chenery, utilities magnate, Derbyphile. On the day before the 1962 Derby, Chenery's Sir Gaylord was the 8-5 favorite. That same day he stepped into a hole on the track, broke a leg and retired to stud...