Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Derby Winner and a millionaire in his own right (winnings: $1,197,115). Willie Shoemaker was riding Never Bend, and his strategy was simple: get out in front and stay there. Driving out of the gate, he opened up a four-length lead at the clubhouse turn. Aboard Kelso, Jockey Ismael Valenzuela tucked in along the rail and patiently bided his time. In the backstretch, Carry Back began to challenge, but Kelso moved alongside-and Carry Back wilted. Valenzuela clucked to Kel so, and the champion went after Never Bend. For a few brief seconds the two horses raced head...
...liam Henry stood before a thousand broadcasters in Manhattan last week, what could he do to be as wastelandish as his predecessor Newton Minow? Since Minow had attacked TV programming, commercials were obviously the largest remaining target. Henry went after them. Citing a recent case in which a disk jockey was told by his station to "play a record between each commercial," Henry told the broadcasters that there are just too many commercials being rammed at the public. He complained about the "bait, hook, switch, and stuff" tactics of late movies, which offer 20 minutes or so of uninterrupted movie...
Dark Suits & Mantillas. By 8:30 a.m. last Wednesday, tour buses from all over Europe had begun to jockey for parking spaces next to the majestic curve of the Bernini colonnade that guards St. Peter's Basilica. Cars and taxis began to clog the narrow streets near the Vatican. Out of them stepped bishops, priests, brothers, nuns, seminarians. About half the pilgrims were Italian, many of them attired as for a picnic. But there were plenty of men dressed in their darkest business suits, and women in discreet blacks, lacy mantillas tossed over elaborate coiffures...
...having discovered that an opportunity for power now exists outside the Ngo family, various military factions may well begin to jockey for sole authority. At week's end, according to one report, this fear was realized at the small town of My Tho, just south of Saigon, where Buddhist and Catholic troops turned on each other...
...night-court judge and the day Liz Whitney arrived at the track straight from a nightclub, wearing a ball gown and leading a small pack of dogs. Or the time Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt sent so sorry a horse to the post that he sympathetically gave the jockey-instead of riding orders-a sandwich, a bottle of milk and a wrist compass...