Word: studded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pups greyhounds are trained in the ways of racing, whipped into good physical shape, and put onto the track at one year. By two and a half they hit their prime, and after four it's off to the stud farm. They can be bought as pups for prices ranging from $300 to $3000, but sales are rare, since most kennels breed their own pups, and few people who don't race have the money or motivation to buy them...
After that, green pastures. At New York's Aqueduct Race Track last week, Owner Phipps announced that Buckpasser has been syndicated for stud duty and will retire next year to Lexington, Ky. Dividing the horse into 32 equal shares-each of which entitles its own er to one stud service per year-Phipps will retain 16 shares himself, has sold the remaining 16 to other breeders at $150,000 apiece. Total worth of the syndicate: $4,800,000, making Buckpasser, who has yet to father his first foal, the highest-priced stallion in history...
...satisfy the rednecks who wanted to kill gooks, giving him an alternative to continued support of the civil rights movement. "Yes, thought the President," Mailer drawled, "his friends and associates were correct in their estimate of him as a genius. Hot damn. Vietnam. The President felt like the only stud in a whorehouse on a houseboat...
...back to Ethiopia, her stud for slaves and elephants...
Another renowned Harvard gambler was Vic Marma who invented a brand of poker known from Dartmouth to Princeton as Miami Marma. A.B., the Webster of Harvard poker, introduced a number of new terms including "K and L" --the game we all Know and Love (seven-card-stud-high-low), which is the type of poker most commonly played at Harvard...