Word: three
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand to watch, and most of the commonwealth's other 7,000,000-odd stopped everything-even streetcars-while they listened by radio. At the start, a lightly regarded speedster named Bruin tripped to the front in the muddy going. Bruin was still leading in the homestretch when three other horses charged up from behind...
...hockey stick. As the blood streamed, another spectator jumped onto the ice fighting mad but was lugged back before he reached Reardon. Other angry fans pressed against the low chicken-wire fence, and Canadiens Right Wing Leo Gravelle got into the act. He swung his stick and flayed three of the nearest spectators. It was 20 minutes before play could be resumed...
With most of the gallery tagging at his heels, he fired a par-smashing 68. That put him three strokes up on Gary Middlecoff, the dentist from Memphis who was U.S. Open champion and Snead's main rival for golfer-of-the-year. In the second round Sam hooked a tee shot into the rough for one bogey, chipped poorly for another, but wound up with a 70. Then Sam finished up in a blaze that left little doubt about who was golf...
...expected, the company's real successes were its full-flavored, full-length performances of the three-and four-act ballet classics, the Tchaikovsky-Ivanov Swan Lake and the Tchaikovsky-Petipa The Sleeping Beauty, which call for almost as much pantomime as dancing...
...Sleeping Beauty, the Met's huge stage was turned into a fairyland of castles, caves and gardens. For three hours, through a prologue, three acts and a wedding (only the last part is familiar to most U.S. fans), audiences sat enthralled while Princess Aurora was christened, cursed by the wicked fairy, and put into the long sleep from which she is awakened by the prince's kiss. The third-act duet by Fonteyn, the princess, and Helpmann, the prince, never failed to stop the show. In Swan Lake, few fans had ever seen anything so magnificent as Margot...