Word: grooms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time, there is the prospect of a vastly increasing influx of teenagers, whose unemployment rate has reached 15%, into a job market that is already crowded. Age is also a problem in the unions, where labor leaders have grown old, tired and divided, generally failing to groom young men to take their places. Unimaginative union leadership has failed to organize the growing ranks of white-collar workers, and union membership-now on the rise after a long decline-stands at about 22.2% of the labor force...
...Negro groom stroked the colt's nose, trying to cairn him down while Trainer Eddie Neloy tightened the saddle girth. Looking on, a girl with yellow hair wanted to know why the horse was carrying 132 Ibs., like the program said, when everybody knows that a jockey only weighs 110 or so. "Lead weights," somebody said. "They stuff the saddle full of lead weights." Somebody else laughed. "This horse, they probably use gold bars instead...
...Washington Handicap two Saturdays ago. Leaping in front at the start, he stayed there all the way-fighting off four separate challenges, drawing out by two lengths at the wire. "A lot of horses found out they could catch Gun Bow today," said his proud groom afterward, "but they was out of breath when they got there...
Although his valet, Miles, was among the wedding guests, none of Ambler's family was present. He had explained that his 68-year-old mother was too aged and frail to make the journey. The groom's uncle, Norman Ambler, who breeds dogs at Cap d'Antibes on the French Riviera and was also uninvited, scoffed at the story. He described his sister-in-law as spry and active, but added, "However, she is something of a religious fanatic-she is liable to start quoting the Scriptures at everyone. That may be one of the reasons John...
...rice in the face, remarked, "It makes me feel like a wounded pheasant." After honeymooning in Sardinia, Mr. and Mrs. John Ambler will be at home at Wilton Crescent in London's Belgravia. As compensation for having stayed put in Britain and watched the wedding on TV, the groom's family will meet the bride at a party next fall...