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Word: traced (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gone to great lengths to explain exactly what he means by the happiness slogan-slightly dressed up as "the spirit of public happiness"-and maintained that the phrase had been written by a bona fide founding father, no less. Though the Library of Congress has not been able to trace the quote, a Humphrey aide said that he thought John Adams had put the words in a letter to Thomas Jefferson. His source: Gene McCarthy, who once used the phrase in his own speeches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Getting Snappish | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...decent charities; Noblesse oblige. Somewhere along the line The name was changed. What's wrong with that? That's fine, They earned the privilege. Give them all their due, But-weren't they still the least bit parvenu, The least bit not quite Mayflower, F.F.V., A trace this side of true gentility, A soupfon, a sous-soupçon, just below The absolute apogee of comme il faut? They did improve the breed, they kept alive The sport of kings, so that, in 1905, The naming of this racecourse set the crown Of laurel on their virtuous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: BELMONT | 5/31/1968 | See Source »

...hurt, and unscrupulous trainers have used Butazolidin to run such animals "hot and cold"-sometimes giving them the drug, sometimes withholding it, in order to vary the horses' performance and affect the betting odds. To stop that practice, every major racing state now requires that no trace of Butazolidin remain in a horse's system on the day of a race. Kentucky was the last state to pass such a law; it did so in 1962, two years after a long shot named Venetian Way, who was practically hooked on bute, scored an upset victory in the Derby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Drug at the Derby | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...administered bute to Dancer's Image. His story suggested that Dancer's Image, through some quirk in his physiological makeup, retained the drug for an extraordinarily long period of time-a tenuous possibility after reports from Kentucky indicated that his urine contained considerably more than a mere trace of the drug. Two other explanations were favored by the horse's owner. Boston Auto Dealer Peter Fuller: 1) urine samples somehow got mixed up during the testing process, or 2) someone not connected with the stable gave Dancer's Image an extra dose of Butazolidin. "Someone," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Horse Racing: Drug at the Derby | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

...Derby with the roller derby know by this time the sad story of Dancer's Image: how he roared through the stretch to beat the favored Forward Pass by a length and a half only to be disqualified three days later because his post-race urinalysis had shown a trace of the illegal painkilling drug phenylbutazone...

Author: By Linda J. Greenhouse, | Title: No Sweet Revenge for Dancer in Preakness | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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