Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Arthur followed the doorman's directions down a maze of passageways to the basement waiting room, another of the evening's aspiring showstoppers fell in behind. It would have been hard to find two folks more different. Where Johnson looked like a jockey in an oversize sweater, New Arrival Steve Cruz was packed into a double-breasted, knife-sharp example of the dry cleaner's art. Their attitudes too were poles apart...
...council's three-hour moonlight cruise on the Harbor will feature dancing, a disc jockey, two cash bars. and a third deck that Social Committee Co-Chairman Jonathan S. Leff '90 described as a "romantic area...
Jacki Farrell (number two in the fall), deLone, Mulvehal and Austrian will jockey for the number-three through six spots. Mulvehal posted a 12-3 record in the fall. Mulvehal won the number-three singles flight at the Harvard Invitational by defeating William and Mary's number-five player. Last year, Mulvehal went undefeated in Ivy play, finishing the season with a 6-0 singles mark for the second straight year...
...from Homestead A.F.B., Florida. His teammates, all Air Force captains from Homestead, follow in a prearranged sequence: Rex Carpenter, 28, Steve ("Wheels") Wheeler, 29, and Nick Anderson, 26. Each was graduated first in his pilot class and has an amiably arrogant opinion of himself as a hot "throttle jockey." At Gunsmoke, every pilot feels that...
...hottest active-duty pilots often quit the Air Force rather than endure the desk assignments required for higher rank. They join the reserves or Air National Guard, where part-time Air Force life is pure flying. "They think we should aim to be colonel-managers," snorts one throttle jockey. Another problem is resentment against rusty squadron commanders just returned from Pentagon desks who lack the "need for speed" in combat-readiness drills...