Word: stud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each day, from docks along the lakeside, the stubby boats chutter off with men and supplies for the listening posts, anti-aircraft gun batteries, searchlight positions which stud the green, hot hills around the lake...
...19th Century-from the early 1800's, when Dr. Redmond Dillon Barry of nearby Gallatin first imported an evergreen grass known as blue from his native Ireland, to 1882, when the great Iroquois (only U.S.-bred horse ever to win the English Derby) was retired to stud at nearby Belle Meade-Nashville was famed as "the cradle of the thoroughbred...
...year-old champion, odds-on favorite to win. His owner had sold Big Pebble to the Moores two years ago. Though it was the first time Champion Bimelech had ever finished out of the money, it was probably his last race. Word was that he would be sent to stud to replace his famed sire, Black Toney...
...such a move were taken and if Washington bet its stud hand against that of Tokyo, the wily Nipponese might examine his navy, take a quick look at ours, and murmuring a polite remark about honorable eternal peace, drop out till the next deal. On the other hand he might very likely sense that our face-down cards include a population sixty percent against war and a Congress which wrangles over every action. He might step into Singapore, which in this case is the pot, and demand a showdown. The next move would...
...lowering day last week, 20,000 racing fans surged through the gates of California's Santa Anita Park. Rain or shine, they had come to pay homage to a beloved little horse, eight-year-old Seabiscuit, returning to the scene of his greatest triumph after nine months at stud...