Word: horsemen
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...these of you who have never viewed a game of polo, don't be afraid you won't understand enough to pay two bucks. There's little to the game, as far as rules are concerned. Just three horsemen per team riding up and down the field trying to whack the ball into a goal...
Professional horsemen have a high opinion of the animal. His jockey said. "I don't think he'll ever get beat unless he falls down." Reggie Cornell, trainer of the Calumet Farms horses, called Hoist The Flag a "super-horse," "the best since Count Fleet," and racing columnist Charles Hatton who has seen 50 years of horse racing claims that many like this horse better than the immortal Man O' War, Hatton of course, stands by the old timer Man O' War, but concedes that Hoist The Flag's rivals have no chance to beat him unless they push...
...Ribicoff added later, "Student dissent today merely reflects the suspicion among the general populace that headless horsemen are in the saddle leading us through times of trouble and turmoil...
...familiar. Whenever the ravishing of the English language comes up for perfunctory headshaking, politicians, journalists, and ad writers almost invariably get cast as Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse. The perennially identified culprits are guilty as charged, God knows. At their worst-and how often they are!-they seem to address the world through a bad PA system. Does it matter what they actually say? They capture your attention, right? They are word manipulators-the carnival barkers of life who misuse language to pitch and con and make the quick kill...
...French call le standing, or status. There is exercise for the mind as well as the muscles. The library is handily placed next to the bar. Every evening there are taped concerts of jazz classics or chamber music, and a pretty Parisienne lectures on painting. Tired tennis players and horsemen and sailors, dressed in bikinis or tennis togs, sarongs or tie-dyed shirts and denims, sprawl beneath the pines, delaying their showers for an hour...