Word: cougar
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...first time that Jockey John ("The Cougar") Pollard, 46, had retired from racing. He went through the motions in 1940, again in 1942, and 13 years later he was still booting them home. But the last time he called his old friend, former Racing Editor David Alexander, to announce that he was hanging up his silks, The Cougar seemed to mean it. Reasonably sure that the long (more than 30 years) career of one of the oldest active jockeys is over at last, Alexander recalls the bright highlights in the current issue of The Blood Horse...
...radio program between Woolf in a Boston broadcasting studio and Pollard in his hospital room. I gave Pollard, whose leg was in traction, a carefully prepared script, but he dropped it on the floor at a crucial point of the broadcast . . . Woolf had just asked The Cougar how he should ride Seabiscuit in the match. 'Why, Georgie boy,' Pollard ad-libbed, 'just ride your usual race. Get left at the post and louse it up from there on in.' Woolf and Seabiscuit won despite Pollard's advice...
...continued, barking out the words like parade-ground commands: refugee-act amendments, water resources, the Upper Colorado, Frying Pan and Cougar dam projects, customs simplification, minimum wage, the atomic peace ship, Hawaiian statehood...
...public-power men, the partnership program has already won favor among the potential partners. In California, local irrigation districts are ready to finance $44 million of the Tri-Dam project on the Stanislaus River. The city of Eugene, Ore. is willing to pay for power facilities for the Cougar Dam. A bill to allow local interests to develop power at Priest Rapids on the Columbia River last week went to the President for signature...
GRUMMAN Aircraft has developed a deadlier version of its swept-wing Cougar (F9F-6) jet fighter for the Navy. The new plane has a longer fuselage, wider, relatively thinner wings which give it higher speed (more than 650 m.p.h.), greater fuel capacity, more maneuverability at high altitudes...