Word: second
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...second act, when Scarpia (Baritone Alexander Sved) threw her to the floor, he really threw her; Jeritza had insisted on realism. Once on the floor, she sang the famous aria "Vissi d'arte" lying prone as usual.* When Scarpia lifted her to her feet, she pushed him away so hard that the sofa he fell into almost went over backward. In the third act, weeping over the dead Cavaradossi, she managed real tears...
...have been at his racing prime, four-year-old Citation did nothing much but munch his daily quota of oats and hay. He went back to work last fall and by January, at Santa Anita, Trainer Jimmy Jones had him ready again. He won an easy one, then finished second in five successive handicaps in which he carried top weight. Though each of the defeats was a near miss, many horsemen thought that Big Cy had lost some...
...whack. "I wanted him to keep his mind on the race," said Brooks. Citation did. He ran down Bolero in the stretch, got home three-quarters of a length ahead. The tote board flashed the time: Citation had run the mile in 1:33 3/5, two-fifths of a second better than the world record set by his stablemate Coaltown at Washington Park last year. A moment later, the announcer verified what everybody at Golden Gate already knew: Big Cy had also beaten Stymie's alltime money-winning record. His earnings to date...
...runner was off with-the pitch; at the crack of the bat he was close to second base. Scampering now, he rounded second digging hard toward third, looking for the coaching signal. He got it: keep moving. He drove for the plate, scored the winning run, having high-tailed all the way home from first base on a single. By such precisely calculated hit & run tactics, the team voted least likely to succeed this year has been making the experts look with fresh respect on Manager Stanley ("Bucky") Harris and his Washington Senators...
After 23 years as a manager with five major-league clubs (including the Tigers, Phillies, Red Sox and Yankees), bulb-nosed, sun-scarred Bucky Harris, 53, has mellowed. As the Senators' fiery, hardhitting second baseman and one of the best in the majors, he once deliberately stomped his spiked shoe on Lou Gehrig's foot to make him drop a throw. As a manager who has gone through some soul-searing troubles (e.g., he was fired from the Yankees after finishing third in 1948) he has developed into a fatherly, genial boss. But with untalented discards and untried...