Word: wired
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...getting a call. Aboard the favorite, worried Jockey Ismael Valenzuela went to the whip. Tim Tarn wobbled badly. His fine stride suddenly looked awkward; he was in trouble. Snug on the rail, Cavan was reaching out and running away. The liver-colored Irish import breezed under the wire with ears pricked, winning by an easy six lengths...
...French press last week also had to grapple with an old enemy: censorship. Though vague and erratic, the government's censorship was the tightest invoked by any Western democracy since the end of the war. Amateur censors, hurriedly recruited from the civil service, stood watch at all the wire services and most big daily newspapers, heavily blue-penciled many a story...
...first news the Associated Press got of trouble on Corsica came when a censor declared that any mention of the uprising there was forbidden. The Paris A.P. desk got a call through to its stringer on the island before communications were cut off, put the story on the U.S. wire (which was not censored) for a solid 15-minute beat...
...only the great Tom Fool ever carried 135 lbs. and won New York's Carter Handicap. But Belmont's Handicapper Jimmy Kilroe reckoned that Wheatley Stable's dark bay Bold Ruler was just the colt to do it again. The Ruler carried the weight to the wire, 1½ lengths in front of Howell E. Jackson's Tick Tock...
...electric shocks but the torturer's ancient weapons of fire and water, fists and boots, terror and thirst. As the first day of torment faded into night, Alleg crawled onto the mattress on the stone floor of his cell, only to find that it was filled with barbed wire...