Word: jock
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Here's the plot: A preppy jock from Winthrop House meets, falls in love with, and marries over his father's objections a beautiful but poor Cliffie from Cranston. Rhode Island on a music scholarship, but she dies of leukemia...
...center of the pool, someone is beating on a tin can, and everyone links arms and dances in a circle. A boy hoists a naked girl to his shoulders and everyone cheers, watching her bob up and down. An older man wearing a jock strap wades serenely...
...Sometimes a jock'll pull a horse," he continued. "If the groom finds out, the jock might get a punch in the mouth. Racing is like dice: you roll craps and you're out; you roll seven or eleven and you're a winner...
...jock comes down here when he's 17 'cause some guy says he can ride, and he thinks he's another Eddie Arcaro," Irving said. "A jock isn't born; he's made by a trainer and a racehorse...
...When that little jock makes the big time, he don't remember the groom who said, 'Drop your arms' or 'Don't pull the horse; he's got a tender mouth.' Three years from then if you go up to him for a buck, he might say, 'Get outta my face...