Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...That Woman." This August is a special one for Saratoga: the 100th anniversary of that shimmering summer day when Lizzie W., a three-year-old filly with a one-eyed jockey in the irons, ran three grueling miles to beat a colt named Captain Moore in the first race ever held at The Spa. Last week everybody celebrated-inlanders and outlanders alike. Bearded men and crinolined ladies bounced through the streets in horse-drawn carriages; diamonds glistened like dewdrops of Saratoga Vichy at black-tie parties. Sousaphones harrumphed, fireworks whiz-banged, and chicken sizzled to a crunchy golden brown. Welterweight...
...Jockey for Position. Syncom II developed some drift after it went into orbit, as was expected, but in the wrong direction. The Kingsport next ordered Syncom to fire its hydrogen peroxide rocket to correct the slow eastward drift, and actually days will pass before Syncom's delicate guidance apparatus will jockey it into an exactly synchronous orbit. Then it is supposed to swing gently in a north-south figure-eight pattern, crossing the equator over the Atlantic Ocean while radiomen below test how well it can relay messages between distant points on the distant earth...
...this British accent when I became successful"), describing his clothes with the tact of an unemployed salesman ("This long dress is for girls with bad knees"). Best of his clothes were the suits and suit ensembles, made mostly of tweed or velvet and worn with matching hats (jockey caps, berets, bowlers and pillboxes) and boots. And even better than the clothes were Cassini's prices, lower this year than ever; some dresses retailed for as little...
Hailwood leaned forward along the M.V.'s gas tank, resting his chin on a sponge rubber shock absorber, hiking his legs up like a jockey. He rocketed through "The Bungalow"-a series of left and right bends-at more than 100 m.p.h., steering by shifting his weight from side to side. Flat out on the straights, he gunned up to 150 m.p.h. Hailwood sped six times around the twisting course and flashed across the finish line more than 2 min. ahead of his closest competitor. Astonished officials announced that he had broken the course record with an average speed...
...work in dark suits, well-shined shoes, avoid button-down shirts (Jack says they are out of style). The more eager New Frontiersmen secure their striped ties with PT-boat clasps-and seem not the least bit embarrassed. The most popular restaurants in Washington are Le Bistro and the Jockey Club, which serve the light Continental foods that Jackie Kennedy features on the White House menu. The less palatable Colony restaurant, tops during the Republican Eisenhower Administration, went broke and has closed...