Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paneled Keeneland pavilion, the Queen watched a mock yearling sale-cum-Thoroughbred quiz show, all staged for her amusement: the M.C. described only the horses' pedigrees, while the visitor and her entourage guessed at the identity of each animal. Later, mingling a bit with the groundlings in the grandstand after the $100,000 Queen Elizabeth II Challenge, she chatted with the winners. "How do you like racing at Keeneland?" she asked Jockey Keith Allen. Just fine, replied the excited rider, just fine...
...unpredictable directions. "I needed something special. It never happened," he said after the playoff. "I feel disappointed and hollow." While it is the nature of contests that today's defeat can make yesterday's victory seem meaningless, neither a 160-yd., 6-iron shot into the 18th grandstand nor a 40-ft. putt into the 72nd hole will ever leave Norman completely...
...South Africa and President Samora Machel of black-ruled, Marxist Mozambique last week sat down together for the first time and faced something other than the prospect of killing. As a crowd of 1,000, including representatives of black African states, watched from the tiers of a hastily constructed grandstand near the border town of Komatipoort, Botha and Machel bent over a tamboutiwood table to sign a nonaggression and good-neighborliness treaty, then smilingly exchanged their gold Parker pens. Declared Botha: "In signing this agreement today, we have opted for the road of peace." He added, "Our task...
...value the alliance, with all its failings, as the ultimate guardian of Western freedom must seek urgently to end political disputes over East-West relations and North-South policy, especially Western conduct in the flash points of conflict in the Third World. The tendency to grandstand before domestic audiences, the growing self-righteousness, will in time make a mockery of the key assumption of the Atlantic Alliance: that we share a common approach to security. Defense requires after all some agreed political purpose in the name of which it is conducted. The Atlantic Alliance must urgently develop a grand strategy...
...Polo Grounds park is located on the edge of Harlem, and a Jack Robinson would step up his already substantial Negro trade. The clubs least likely to cross the racial bridge were the St. Louis Cardinals and Browns, who until recently did not even allow Negroes in the grandstand...