Word: tutting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...annals of horse racing history, We could only find a single occurrence in which the jockey without any doubt had a positive influence. On August 14, 1927, in Saratoga Springs an untried colt named King Tut froze up at the starting gate at the annual running of the Governor's Cup. Despite all efforts to make Tut run, including the offering of sugar cubes, the horse stood, solid as a statue...
...furor at the Field Museum of Natural History. In Washington, D.C., where the show began its run of six U.S. cities last December, the wait to get in averaged five hours. On its first day in Chicago, 2,000 people were in line when the doors opened. The first Tut fanciers had arrived...
...other evidence of his Chicago popularity might have the pharaoh twirling in his tomb: pyramid hair styles, Cleopatra eye makeup, scarab rings, mummy bead necklaces, wallpaper sporting Egyptian goddesses, Tut towel and pillow sets. The newest disco dance is a stimulating shuffle called the King Tut Strut. One women's shop has achieved the living end in Egyptian necrophilia: its main window features a mannequin wrapped in masking tape to look like a mummy...
When he went to see the King Tut exhibit fortnight ago, Carter did not even wear a tie. His retinue of white-shirted ambassadors, National Gallery factotums and Secret Service agents looked faintly uneasy. Jimmy was like the tourists, who gave up neckties a long time...
...Times backed Commander Robert E. Peary in the 1908 North Pole race with $4,000 and got more for its money than the Herald, which put $25,000 behind Dr. Frederick Cook. In 1922 the Times bought U.S. rights to stories from an archaeological expedition seeking King Tut's tomb, a venture in which the London Times staked $100,000. Meyer Berger, in his Story of the New York Times, wrote that scarcely a season went by between 1923 and 1949 that the paper did not offer "some first-hand account of man's thrilling...