Word: tacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year alone. Panama's Manuel Ycaza had the second highest percentage of winners (24%) in the nation last year and ranked third in purses (with $1,975,118). Of all the Latin Americans, Baeza is the best. The son and grandson of jockeys, he grew up around the tack room of Panama City's Juan Franco race track, where President José Antonio ("Chichi") Remón was assassinated in 1955. He learned to ride at six, won his first race at 15. Purses in Panama were small and the horses were cheap. "Most of them looked like...
Herbert Brucker, articulate editor of the Hartford Courant and newly elected president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, took a more practical tack. Hoping to put the issue in perspective, and also to put it on the shelf, he suggested that he and his colleagues "put ourselves in the other fellow's shoes...
...Life is unpredictable," said Saltonstall in his laconic way. "In sailing terms, we sometimes come about and start on a new tack, or as in this case, we jibe over sharply to an entirely different course. With the greatest reluctance, I plan to resign as principal of Exeter at the end of the school year...
...soundest way to a balanced budget; that way is to reduce spending. Too bad the President didn't end his speech about a third of the way through-when he was way ahead with his attractive tax-cut proposals. Instead, he apparently thought it was necessary to tack on a motley assortment of recommendations adding up to a 'domestic program...
...late teens, Dancer worked as a groom, mucking out stalls at New York's Roosevelt Raceway, and got himself a cot in the racetrack's tack room to cut expenses. Married at 20, he borrowed $250 from his bride to buy a crippled seven-year-old trotter named Candor that he patiently nursed back to health and trained on snow-covered bridle paths in New Jersey. Candor repaid him by winning $12,000 in three years, and Dancer built a five-room ranch house at New Egypt...