Word: chick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the Answers. Hartack ran through six agents, finally settled down with 30-year-old Chick Lang, son of the jockey who won the 1928 Kentucky Derby on Reigh Count. Chunky Chick Jr., an admirable foil for his rider's furious disposition, studies the available horses at the meetings where Hartack rides, matches them against the condition book (an advance schedule of races), and picks probable winners. For 20% of the Hartack earnings, it is Lang's job to get his boy hired to ride winners and still not anger the trainers he has to turn down. It is cited...
...made a study of the boy, as well as the condition book," explains Chick Lang. "I had to. My biggest problem isn't mounts, but Billy's personality. I spend most of my time trailing around after him, apologizing to people he's insulted. He's particularly rude if he hasn't won. He's the most competitive athlete I ever saw. If he doesn't win, he won't talk to anybody...
...Hartford Chiefs play baseball, but as far as we know he never walked into the museum in his life") gave the Atheneum the bank account it direly needed. Looking for an out-of-vogue period in which to buy first-class painting, the director, the late A. Everett ("Chick") Austin Jr., beelined for the then unwanted, melodramatic baroque and rococo canvases...
...have a Wild Time racing around to parties and bars and out to the West Coast. Cutting back and forth across the country for 308 pages, they meet at least a couple of hundred other real gone characters. Sometimes the boys work a little, or sleep with some cute chick, or steal cars, or get married, or hitch-hike, or get divorced; almost nightly they get drunk and/or take dope. Dean sets the pace, stealing five cars one night and sleeping with three girls another; understandably nobody can keep up, though most try hard enough...
...Leading to the question: "How many chicks should a chick checker check if a chick checker should check chicks...