"_Hard-pounding_ sporting events!"

[Wilson Gray]

I've always understood the cliche as "heart-pounding," but, given "the
thundering hoof-beats of the great horse, SIL-ver!," the Kentucky
Derby, polo, rodeos, et sim., well,

Youneverknow.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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