Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...several of the light-voting student precincts near Boston University and Northeastern, WBCN disc jockey Duane I. Glassock, running a write-in campaign as a joke to promote his radio show, may challenge the state senator for second place...
...Cornell 31 Dart 10 Colgate 17 Columbia 7 Brown 30 H C 14 1-3 15-11 .573 MICHELLE HEALY Princeton 12 Harvard 10 Yale 35 Penn 13 Cornell 14 Dart 13 Colgate 28 Columbia 21 H C 35 Brown 28 Staff Writer DUANE INGALLS GLASSCOCK WBCN Disc Jockey and Clone Princeton 42 Harvard 0 Penn 17 Yale 14 Cornell 17 Dart 14 Colgate 24 Colum 10 Brown 14 H C 13 guest
...having "connived" to sell him out. "Obviously the negotiations could not continue without his agreement," writes Kissinger. Yet "turning on Thieu would be incompatible with our sacrifice, "he adds. Further, "we had to make Hanoi understand it would not be able to use our differences with Saigon to jockey us at the last moment into doing what we had refused for four years: overthrowing the political structure in South 'Viet Nam. "In any case, Kissinger goes on, "Thieu's reaction guaranteed that the war would not end soon." Kissinger was barely back in Washington when the North Vietnamese...
...making use of the hundred-odd typewriters laid out on row after row of tables. The press struggles to cover the event, their efforts hampered because the press area is in the bleachers of the papal ballfield. The radio and TV people fight to get their equipment working; photographers jockey for front-row seats, but with most of the press corps aboard the bus following the papal motorcade, the major topic of conversation among scribes stranded at the Common is why the ladies delegated to serve lunch to the media refuse to open the sandwich line until...
There have been lawyer-detectives and priest-detectives and even jockey-detectives, but perhaps the most intriguing blend of workaday occupation and avocational sleuthing is Charles Paris, an invention of English Writer Simon Brett. Charles is an actor-detective, perhaps the first and last of his breed. Performers are generally too self-absorbed to be much use in searching other people's motives...