Word: wente
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month ago, at Yonkers Professional Hospital, Dr. Maraventano and his assistants went to work, in an operation lasting three hours. The operation revealed a true testicle in the left side of the groin. In the pelvis, there were an undifferentiated "boggy mass" and suggestions of vestigial Fallopian tubes, but no true uterus and no ovarian tissue. By plastic surgery...
Along the Pumpkin Circuit. It took him no time at all to figure out what he wanted to do. "Banking and horse racing wouldn't have went together," he decided. "Folks think all horse trainers are horse thieves...
Wright insisted that all his enterprises, including Calumet Farm at Lexington, Ky., show results. He went as high as $75,000 to get the best brood mares he could find. The rest of the Calumet first team that operated under Quarterback...
...league. In Oklahoma City, Ben once got hornswoggled in a match race against an Indian quarter-horse. The Indians dug a hole in the lane Ben's horse was to run in, filled it with straw and covered it with dirt. When Ben's horse hit the hole, she went sprawling and the Indians took his money. Since then Ben has been pretty thorough about inspecting tracks before a race...
...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...