Word: groomed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...late teens, Dancer worked as a groom, mucking out stalls at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, and got himself a cot in the racetrack's tack room to cut expenses. Married at 20, he borrowed $250 from his bride to buy a crippled seven-year-old trotter named Candor that he patiently nursed back to health and trained on snow-covered bridle paths in New Jersey. Candor repaid him by winning $12,000 in three years, and Dancer built a five-room ranch house at New Egypt...
...chagrin, even his own C.D.U. colleagues had begun to raise the leadership issue. Everyone, it seemed, felt it was about time for Adenauer to step down. In a heated meeting, they asked him insistently to declare his intention to resign by next fall, so that the party might groom a successor in time for the 1965 general elections. Adenauer, who will be 87 next month, stalled off a definite statement...
Neither bride nor groom cares much about these tribal parental interests; but on their wedding day a member of the murdering family, Leonardo, sweeps the bride he loves out of the village ritual, and independent as a "shooting star," rides off with her. Feuding at last, the groom chases after them; the two men meet and kill each other. The bride makes a definite return to the village, announcing that she has followed the rule of custom at least in that she remains caste--and so leaves Leonardo to be the tragic protagonist, the only individual outside the force...
...unconcerned as an old plow horse," said his groom. "He's shy and aloof, and at times he can be a bit uppity, but he can afford to be, now that he is a star." He certainly got star treatment; so that he would not have to tread unfamiliar soil, his trainer imported a truckload of clay for his stall from Goshen...
...jubilant tribesmen hailed the bride and groom with the traditional whinny-an affectionate salute that is supposed to imitate the neighing of a Basuto pony. They scrupulously obeyed the sign posted before the church: "No horses allowed in the cathedral." Also on hand to pay their respects were foreign diplomats stationed in South Africa, the country that completely surrounds Basutoland. With the two-hour marriage ceremony completed, the diplomats headed home and all Basutoland (pop. 700,000) settled down to three days of parades, celebrations and feasts of barbecued oxen...