Word: paddocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer of 1956, two young graduates of Dallas' Highland Park High School embarked on the most rigorous ordeal of their young lives: the plebe year at the U.S. service academies. Annapolis Midshipman Alton K. Thompson and West Point Cadet Charles Paddock Otstott (who had spent a year at Southern Methodist University) had impressive records to maintain. At Highland Park, both were presidents of their senior class, both were members of the National Honor Society, and both were recipients of the top award given by the National Honor Society for all-round excellence in grades and extracurricular activities...
...WILLIAM PADDOCK Director...
...forbade, he explained: as an avowed candidate he would have to neglect his Senate duties. But at a political session in an Idaho Falls hotel, he leveled with an anxious admirer. "We don't want to bet on a horse that's going to stay in the paddock." the politician observed. "Are you a candidate?" Replied L.B.J.: "You're damned right I am." "Then I'm with you," said the politician, thrusting out his hand...
With Venetian Way a 6-1 choice, Owner Isaac Blumberg, 72, a retired Illinois machine-tool manufacturer, nursed a double bourbon and pessimistically recalled 1958 when his Lincoln Road finished second to Tim Tam in both the Derby and the Preakness. Down in the paddock, Trainer Vic Sovinski gave Hartack instructions: "You ought to be third or fourth going into the clubhouse turn, but lay back until the backstretch. Then go when you see your spot...