Word: longshots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUSSIN'S LONGSHOT...
...fourth race at New York's Aqueduct race track last week, the chalk players cheered as Miss Stowaway, the odds-on favorite, got away fast, ran easily, and finished under wraps. Few noticed that five furlongs back a 40-to-1 longshot called Plenty Papaya broke skittishly from the starting gate and lunged for the outer rail. Aboard the black two-year-old filly, Jockey Roy L. Gilbert, 22, a lanky kid from the mountains of eastern Kentucky, was pushing his hottest winning streak. Seven years away from his first job as a stable...
Teleprayer. Full of subdued color, Dimbleby had a kindly plug or two for Queen Elizabeth's coachman, Joseph Cooze. He described the mounted Sovereign's Escort as "this lovely, twinkling jingle of breastplates," and back at Buckingham Palace, when a telescopic longshot followed the royal family as they left the balcony and got a candid peek at the Queen Mother mimicking a part of the ceremony, Dimbleby was propriety itself: "I think we ought not to stand and watch the royal family inside their own house any more...
...asked Congress to support the new International Development Association, ante up about one-third of its $1 billion capital over the next five years. The rest of IDA's bankroll will be pumped in by rich and poor nations alike. IDA will make longshot loans with a banker's cool eye but will accept payments in soft currencies as well as hard. By 1961 IDA expects to be pumping out some $160 million a year...