Word: though
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wouldn't be fit for the long Derby grind. Ben got a blacksmith to shoe the horse with heavy protective bar plates, then got one hard work and a race into him. On Derby Day, lightweight shoes replaced the heavy ones and Lawrin must have felt as though he was flying. He romped home...
...Jones recognized Whirlaway as a potentially great horse?even though he was foolish and eccentric off the race track, and completely crazy on it. It took three men to put a saddle on him. In the paddock the horse shook like an aspen. When he went into a turn during a race, no amount of strong-arming by a jockey could keep him from going wide...
...what kind of a loose statement is that coming from a man named Deevey, and him a redhead, even though he is assistant professor of biology at Yale? The absence of snakes in Ireland, as anyone knows (whether their name just happens to be Kelly, O'Flaherty, Dunne or O'Rourke), is the direct outcome of the fact that 1,500 years ago the good St. Patrick himself stood on a hill in the Galty Mountains and ordered the vipers away...
Painter Lewis' own face, added Eliot, "is worth watching. Wearing a look of slightly quizzical inscrutability . . . behind which one suspects his mental muscles may be contracting for some unexpected pounce, he makes one feel that it would be undesirable, though not actually dangerous, to fall asleep in one's chair...
Tricks. Faced with slumping sales, many other manufacturers were trying similar tricks. They were well aware that the drop in buying was caused less by a lack of customers' cash than a stubborn rebellion against high prices. Though businessmen grumbled about recession, it was still the most prosperous recession the U.S. had ever had. Consumers' dollars could still be lured out for the right product at the right price...