Word: jockeys
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...NASA seems to have won the confidence of the whole shuttle engineering community. John Shannon, chairman of the Endeavour mission management team and the man who assessed the risk, made the call based on an abundance of testing and analysis over the past week, rather than from any rocket jockey arrogance, which was largely blamed for the last two shuttle losses. Among the 30 organizations from which scientists were called in for independent analyses: Ames Research Center; Langley Research Center; the White Sands Test Facility; and the Johnson, Kennedy and Marshall space centers. And, of course, there was input from...
Ralph Waldo "Petey" Greene (Don Cheadle) found his calling in jail where he was permitted two daily 20-minute spots as a disc jockey on the prison's public address system. In that unlikely context, he primitively pioneered something akin to the now ubiquitous shock-jock style. With the help of a straight-arrow program director named Dewey Hughes (Chiwetel Ejiofor), he pretty much elbowed his way into a job at WOL-AM, a near-moribund Washington, DC radio station, whose audience was basically black and basically fed up with conventional broadcasting...
...cheating and spying have run rampant. So, too, have actual cheating and spying. One player wrote to us fingering another House with signing up pre-frosh to bolster their ranks. “Councils of War”, which have sprung up in each House to plot strategy, jockey constantly to keep tabs on their opponents’ plans, with the help of dummy accounts, stolen passwords, and secretive informants. Open email lists and the Web site’s built-in private chat rooms have been dismissed as unsafe and prone to other House’s prying eyes...
...seduction conjured up a brand-new way to be,” she recounts. Darling provides a laundry list of the sundry men she’s tumbled into bed with during the temporal black hole since that bedtime chat freshman year: “a progressive-rock disk jockey in Richmond, Virginia; the faux scion of a Polish count; a marijuana-runner on the North Carolina coast.” Enter debonair White House correspondent Lee A. Lescaze. They meet for drinks. He compares her to a character in a Ford Maddox Ford novel and she?...
...more dangerous, this just doesn’t make sense.” Mehigan, the City Hall spokeswoman, says that clubs with musical performances can seek prior approval from City Hall to have audiences under 21 after 11 p.m.Even so, Shirley L. Hufstedler ’07, a disc jockey for WHRB’s Record Hospital and outgoing president for the Harvard College Alliance of Rock and Roll, says she feels that these restrictive measures have a significant negative impact on the music scene and other communities that frequent 18-plus venues in Boston. “City officials...