Word: swathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wide Swath. Native Dancer's easy, businesslike victory earned him a rest. Trainer Bill Winfrey, who has no intention of letting the horse out of sight, will take him to California with the racing stable, put him back in training in December after a precautionary ankle-"blistering" (i.e., tightening). Next race: Jamaica in April. "Anything more this season would be superfluous," explained Winfrey. "He's done all we could ask of him-answered all the questions...
...deep chest: "Those lungs may be his greatest asset. At the end of a race he never shows the slightest sign of being winded or tired." Winfrey likens Native Dancer's staying power to that of Henry Armstrong, the triple-crown champion-who cut as wide a swath in boxing as Native Dancer seems capable of doing in racing...
Only the air of the drawing room persists to the end; despite Edna Best's smooth playing, the charm of Jane fades out. Halfway along, she stops seeming faintly absurd and at once stops seeming alive. And she doesn't cut a wide enough swath, cause enough contretemps, shake up enough lives. In the end, the strong point of the play seems almost as much comment as character...
...Place in the Sun is the story of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a poor, ambitious boy who pursues the dream of a Horatio Alger hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
...loud note into their ears. Southern High expelled him within two months of graduation. As Mario tells the story, it was because he socked a teacher for slurring his Italian extraction. By then, Freddy weighed 250 Ibs., a blubbery fact that did not prevent him from cutting a wide swath among the local girls...