Word: tiring
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...finished worse than third. The conditions of the Preakness are more favorable to Never Bend than the Derby, in which he ran second. Never Bend is a front-runner and the Preakness is a shade shorter than the Derby. Further more, No Robbery, the horse whose stout pressure helped tire Never Bend after he had run the first six furlongs of the Derby in a blistering 1:10, is out of the Preakness with an injury...
...contract talks opening this week, rubber workers will push tire manufacturers for paid leaves, ranging upward from two months off after seven years' work. The United Steelworkers' big drive will be for three-month sabbaticals every five years after 15 years' service. In Detroit, Walter Reuther has already pressed the automakers to start studying his requests for greater job security in next year's contract. Stymied in its drive for a 35-hour, share-the-work week, labor has turned its efforts to winning bigger and better fringe benefits...
Pringle and Townsend finished the first 100 in a tie, but Pringle pushed a full body length ahead of Townsend in the breaststroke, and it looked like the race was won. Townsend, refusing to tire, however, came back in the freestyle. After catching Pringle, Townsend pulled relentlessly ahead to win by two body-lengths...
Kentucky, land of high spirits, never seems to tire of one particular product. It is called Old Happy. Known also as A. (for Albert) B. (for Benjamin) Chandler, Old Happy has a guaranteed age of 64, has given Kentuckians a kick for three decades-and seems good for many more...
Excerpted, O'Hara dialogue seems melodramatic, but in his stories it reads smoothly. Over the years O'Hara's ear for dialogue has become something of a legend, as critics never tire of reminding us. Yet he did not come by this talent easily: he worked at it as a young journalist. Fox example, in 1929 he got a New Yorker assignment to report the meetings of the Orange County Afternoon Delphian Society. As Walcott Gibbs reflected in 1938, after a while the stories became almost impossible to read, "the sensation was uncomfortably like being trapped among the ladies while...