Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This growth was the "clearest index of true freedom of the press." How was this freedom defined? Said Pravda: "Every line in our newspapers and journals must be devoted to Bolshevik propaganda...
Sabotage by Stealth. "Now . . . suppose a few men in one of these countries decide the other nation must be 'removed,' that it must be wiped out by a war without warfare. Supposing they plan a war without the formalities of overt acts, a kind of global sabotage aimed not at capture but at destruction, a truly 'preventive war.' In this creeping war there would be no blitzkrieg, no declaration, no massing of forces...
There is more to it than that. All the good ones, like good piano players, must also have rhythm. Says Arcaro: "You've got to make the horse think you're part of him. You sit right tight and dig your hands into his neck. And when he drives, you drive, and when he comes back you come back with him. That's the only secret I know about helping a horse, and it's no secret." He might have added that a great jockey, like any champion, must have guts...
...exactly the same way. But he isn't always the best rider on every horse. One very good one that he can't ride is Stymie, greatest of the money-earners (with $823,560). He once rode Stymie, whom he says he doesn't "fit," admitted that he must have looked like Ned the Coachman coming down the stretch...
...another rider rammed him right after the start of the Cowdin Stakes at Aqueduct. Arcaro saw red. He wheeled his horse out, cracked him with the whip and went after the offender. "I must have done that next eighth in 10 flat," he says. He caught up with the other jockey, Vincent Nodarse, and al most put him over the fence. The stewards called Arcaro up to the stand, asked him if he had done it on purpose, and expected the usual denial. Instead Arcaro blurted: "I'd of killed the son of a bitch if I could...