Word: rider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rank outsider in the second race betting, came on from fourth place in the stretch to overtake Third Party, the 8-1 third choice. Fox Star, the 2-1 favorite, made a strong move in the stretch but could finish no better than third. Empey Rullah lost his rider at the quarter pole. Po' L'il Chappie, a six-year-old gelding, ran the six furlongs in 1:12 4/5. He paid $149.40 straight, $51.60 for place, and $21.80 for the show...
...Amounts to Blackmail." But this time Carl Hayden was apparently a mite impatient. Once Aspinall was out of town, Hayden blandly asked his colleagues on the Appropriations Committee if they saw anything wrong with attaching the Central Arizona Project as a rider to the $4.7 billion public-works bill-the "pork barrel" package on its way to the Senate floor. Of course not, said the committee...
...accept the Central Arizona Project as part of the public-works bill? he asked. The House was supposed to be trying to cut expenditures. But then, how could Congressmen vote down a bill containing all those pork-barrel projects so dear to their hearts? If Hayden's Arizona rider stayed on the bill, the Congress could be caught up in a ruckus that might last until Christmas. Most people would probably blame Aspinall...
Caught in a trap, Aspinall backed down. "It amounts to blackmail," he grumbled, as he allowed that if Hayden would withdraw his rider and stick with the Central Arizona Project bill as passed by the Senate, Aspinall's committee would take it up first thing next session. "This is all I ever wanted," responded Hayden with a grin...
...Ivers, the most aggressive, plays harp at capacity volume, punctuating his solos with sharp staccato blasts shaking him from head to toes. Tschudin, scorning more pedestrian methods, gets high on his organ and builds climatic crescendos of musical phrases. As for Hillman, the other four call him the Ghost Rider, because "he can draw fast enough to shoot a knife that's being thrown at him." He has a wonderful habit of bending the final electronic note of his beautiful guitar solos--a habit which invaliably draws a series of awe-struck screams from his delighted fans, the audiences happy...