Word: winter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three Years Running. As winter racing came alive with the big-stakes races that point the way north toward the Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont, Willie Hartack began booting his way into the winner's circle with familiar regularity. Though he got off to an atrocious 1958 start (27 races without a first at Tropical Park), at Hialeah he is back in top form. One afternoon last week, for example, he turned in a superlative performance on Mrs. Allie Ruben's Stephanotis, kept the Irish-bred bay out of traffic trouble in a 16-horse field...
...house and moved the sprightly critical review Arts to lyrical flights: "She has lovely broad shoulders and fine big arms, well made for singing of love, joy and sadness. We can understand how her body could have inspired painters. She brings with her the lights of springtime and winter, sun and rain...
...master the new control, Werner started to get ready for the season as long ago as last summer, when he spent two months on the slopes of the Andes. This winter he put the finishing touches on a new ski technique. "I had been putting too much weight on my inside [uphill] ski, and I tried to ski more on my outside [downhill] ski," he says. "I'm not so wild now. I want to go as fast as I can and still stand...
...with thorns stuck in his wax image. At death's point Francis is rescued by Yoben, who proves to be a disguised Roman Catholic priest and is hanged at Henley (near Author Goudge's home) in full view of poor Froniga. At last the Restoration comes. "The winter was over and ahead lay the months of color and delight...
...Winter Set. In Albuquerque, Leslie F. White was fined $50 for careless driving after a patrolman testified that on the hood of White's car he found a snowman whose measurements were two feet high and two feet wide...