Word: ridden
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Press is an important part of the general publishing community. It is important both in volume of business and in the number of titles issued annually. Still more significant, the Press produces titles of quality, value, and influence in a coat-ridden field where commectal publishers often push aside good books for works of a flashier nature and greater sales potential...
...week long, Dewey tried to soften the crushing effect of the Hanley letter (TIME, Oct. 23). There was a lot to explain away: 74-year-old, debt-ridden, half-blind Lieut. Governor Joe Hanley, "humiliated, disappointed and heartsick" because he was not going to run for governor and Tom Dewey was, had written that Dewey had made him "certain unalterable and unquestionably definite propositions" to free Hanley of debt, if he would take the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator instead...
Chastened Prosecutor. It wasn't necessary. That night the man who had written the letters-a war veteran who had been discharged as a psychoneurotic-telephoned Prosecutor King. Conscience-ridden, he had been to see his priest, confessed the crime for which Williams had been convicted, offered to give himself up if he got immunity and was not publicly identified. Chastened Prosecutor King agreed...
Methodist Parson Hiram Milo Frakes had ridden his pony into the patch of Kentucky wilderness cut off by Big Pine and Little Log Mountains to bring religion and book learning to the dirt-poor, illiterate mountaineers. When Scott Partin found that out, he gave the parson some land to start building his school and church on. Bill Henderson was another Kentuckian who helped. He chipped in a 65-acre farm because "he'd rather his children would have an education than to have the farm." Before he could see the settlement that Parson Frakes made of his land, Bill...
...front, I took back. I must have been seven or eight lengths behind the leaders at one time." A quarter-mile from home he hustled Battlefield out of the pack and set out to collar the leader, Greentree Stable's 13-to-1 Big Stretch, hard ridden by Ted Atkinson. With a sixteenth to go, it was still Big Stretch. Then Arcaro gave his colt a touch of the whip. As Battlefield slowly closed the gap, Eddie yelled to Atkinson. "Got you!" said Eddie, and he was right-by a nose...