Word: chestnut
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...that he might yield a parallel and Van Dong said he might wait for more than a year for elections. At 4 p.m., Eden, Molotov and Van Dong gathered at Le Bocage, another French villa near the lake. While waiting for Mendès, Molotov walked alone under the chestnut trees in the garden, studying some notes. Mendès arrived, wearing sunglasses over his tired eyes and apologizing profusely for being late-he had been entertaining Chou En-lai at a long, lavish lunch. The four went into a huddle. At 5:20 p.m. the word went out: agreement...
...Britain, where the month of June holds the best prospect of good weather, Queen Elizabeth II, who actually turned 28 last April, celebrated her official birthday in the old monarchic tradition. Sitting sidesaddle on a big chestnut horse named Winston, and decked out in the scarlet and blue uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Coldstream Guards, she watched the Trooping the Color ceremony on London's Horse Guards parade ground. Later, the Queen proclaimed the fifth honors list of her reign. Among the 2,500 British and Commonwealth citizens on the roster: old (80) Author Somerset Maugham...
...track, garishly garbed "TicTac" men waved semaphore signals to their bookies as reports on off-course betting came in over the "blower" (telephone). A Yorkshire colt named Rowston Manor and a French challenger, Ferriol, were joint favorites at 5 to 1. Few bothered with an American-bred chestnut colt named Never Say Die. He had won only once as a two-year-old, had run three times this year and never finished first. He went off at 33 to 1. His owner, a New York broker named Robert Sterling Clark, 77, had not even come over for the race...
Exercise boys hunched over the withers or, if they trusted the animals beneath them, stood high in the stirrups. A Cuban jockey sped by, crooning to his horse in Spanish. A steeplechase jock eased past on a chestnut jumper. A skittish, short-backed filly began to act up, slogging at the bit and trying to turn back up the track. Her jockey cursed: "You crummy pig. You're going back to the bull rings...
Renamed "The Makeshift Athletic Club" because of numerous early-season injuries, the varsity baseball team will meet a favored Boston College nine this afternoon at Chestnut Hill...