Word: spur
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...alas, the coming of the gasoline engine has removed the living spur to expressive, non-blasphemous profanity until now only a pale substitute survives-the words are remembered but the music has been lost...
...games at the vast downtown Frontón, citizens of Mexico City not tony enough for brincos find plenty of ways to risk their money. Some go to the cockfights at the Posada de los Cuatro Caminos, just outside the Federal District limits, where pesos change hands with every spur-thrust. Thousands play la bolita, an illegal policy game paying off 80 t01 on the last two numbers of the regular winning National Lottery ticket. In the bullfight fans' cafés such as the Tupinamba, big money is bet on which matador will get the privilege of cutting...
...American League where the Yankees, paced by Henrich, had rolled up a solid six-game lead. At 33, modest, Ohio-born Tommy Henrich was having a new experience; he was the Yankees' big wheel. The great Joe DiMaggio had held that role for nine years, but a bone spur put him out of action before the season opened (TIME, April...
...narrow-gauge railroad 240 miles westward across the Oriente's jungle. With luck, they will link Sao Paulo and Rio with Santa Cruz by December 1950, later extend the line to Cochabamba to complete South America's third transcontinental railway. From the south an Argentine standard-gauge spur is now abuilding toward Santa Cruz...
...Plymptom squad is knee-deep in danky outfielders. In center, husky, bronzed Juan P. Leapandfall will start if the hone spur on his ailing heel shapes up; Chuckles (XX) Bellylaugh is slated to tend the right garden; and devilish Cocksure will attempt to run the game while patrolling the left pasture...