Word: stirrups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come Again. In Tokyo, a robber stripped Tadashichiro Tamura of his clothing and money, but accepted a stirrup cup and ultimately staggered out leaving behind his own jacket, his shoes, and the loot...
...Arcaro's only other serious rival is the West Coast's favorite Johnny Longden, who is 38. They all have slightly different styles. Longden, for example, is famed as a "whoop-te-do" rider: a jockey who likes to get out front and stay there. Atkinson rides with his stirrups even; Arcaro uses what is called the "ace deuce" technique, in which the right stirrup is about two inches higher than the left. Says Arcaro: "I don't agree with the idea of it myself, but it seems to suit me." About 75% of present-day jockeys ride that...
...Perk," as he is informally known, is a Harvard-man's Harvardman in the best traditions of the gentlemen and scholar. Though he has not had a foot in a stirrup in twenty years, he speaks reminiscently of his experiences on the range. The impression given by his large library of the works of distinguished Englishmen is betrayed by an equestrian symbol-a pair of tarnished spurs which hang in proud retirement above the fireplace. His nautical blood put him on Harvard's first one hundred and fifty pound crew which he captained in his senior year. But the crew...
...fortify himself, he took a few stiff drinks of whiskey and gin. They were just a bit too stiff. Halfway up the 30-ft. flagpole, Lawson's foot slipped. He fell, heading for certain death, but the climbing stirrup caught his foot. For more than an hour, he hung helplessly upsidedown, 24 floors and a few odd feet above Richmond's shopping district...
...Abolished the Office of Civilian Defense, by eliminating its $369,000 budget. About $34,000,000 worth of OCD equipment (gas masks, stirrup pumps, etc.) in 2,900 cities will be given to the Army or sold for surplus property...