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Jockey Guerin did just that. Out in front from the start, Jet Pilot was tiring as he entered the stretch. Jockey Guerin resisted an urge to sting Jet Pilot's chestnut rump with the whip-he remembered that Jet Pilot didn't take kindly to whipping (and Owner Arden disapproves too). The result was the closest Derby finish in eleven years. From far behind, the 2-to-1 favorite, Phalanx, Eddie Arcaro up, came up strong and was only a head behind Jet Pilot at the end. Another head back was Faultless. California's big hope...
Chief leader of pro-Pakistan, anti-Congress princes was the handsome, polo-playing Nawab of Bhopal, who figures that if both the Moslem League and the ruling princes boycott the Constituent Assembly, it can be branded as a rump parliament of Congressites...
...glory. She was curving and sedate. With the sleepy smile of one lying on a feather bed in Paradise, with tiny grey eyes behind the pince-nez which sat on her nose, with the swell of long low breasts balanced by the swell of her dawdling rump, she moved swanlike to her desk. But not like a swan in the water; like a swan on land. She waddled. Her feet were planted obliquely. One would have said that they were webbed...
...quiet that I could hear the clock ticking on my instrument panel. It was eerie. The plane was so sensitive that I had to handle the controls like a surgeon. When I turned on all four cylinders I felt as though somebody had kicked me in the rump with a lead boot. I kept thinking of the terrific power I was sitting...
...Rotund, romantic Lieut. Henri-Marie Beyle-who had never ridden a horse or seen a battle-hoisted his huge rump into the saddle and galloped off to war. His armor included two pistols, a large saber and the works of Homer, Virgil, Horace, Racine and Moliere...