Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blight of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla in 1955 sent Lleras back into Colombian politics. He plotted his revolution in Bogota's somber Jockey Club, where he brought the warring Liberals and Conservatives into a united front that eased Rojas out of office without a fight. Now midway through his four-year term, he has put across a belt-tightening stability program, cutting the foreign debt from $400 million to $170 million, holding the peso steady...
Latter-Day Alchemist. The plot is standard. An ambitious small-town disk jockey makes a tape of a teenager named Anna Lou Schreckengost singing at a country-club dance and sends it to Sid Harper, A. & R. man at Manhattan's Blackwood Records. Anna Lou and her grandmother are flown to New York for an audition...
...state problems and prepare legislative proposals, backed down in the face of lawmakers' complaints that he was grabbing all the credit. Soothingly, Rocky announced that his task forces would henceforth be called "legislative cooperating committees." ¶Because of "unpleasant connotations" acquired by the term during payola investigations, "disk jockey" was banned from the air by Poughkeepsie, N.Y.'s station WEOK. WEOK's deejays are now to be known as "musicasters." ¶ Admiral Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, announced that he would henceforth spell "Communism" with a "K," just like the Russians. Why? Explained the admiral: Khrushchev...
...only run in North America.) As the new boy on the course, Monti dutifully made two trial runs from the halfway mark before the officials would turn him loose. Scorning the U.S.-style steering wheel, he handled the steering ropes with the sensitive, iron hands of a jockey, hit speeds close to 90 m.p.h. At the 180° Shady Corner curve, he swung high on its sheer wall, then dropped surely down to the narrow slotted straight away to pick up precious speed. When the times were computed, Monti had won the National A.A.U. two-man championship. What was more...
Perhaps he does. But Khrushchev also sometimes resembles a garrulous all-night disk jockey who does not expect his every word to be remembered and held against him. When Foreign Minister Pella reproached him afterwards for his conduct, Khrushchev shrugged: "Maybe you're right. But that's how I am." Taking hold of Gronchi's hand he asked: "You weren't at all offended by what I said, were...