jockeying

• The other ship followed him up, striving to rake him with lead, always just failing, and unable to climb quite as fast as Doc's bus The altimeter needle marched to eighteen thousand, where the thermometer said it was fifty below, and there they fought, above the clouds, jockeying, diving, zooming. —  029 - Quest of Qui
• Moments of shouted orders and position- jockeying gave way to groans as the students hauled hard on the limb Barrin pelted toward them, wondering what could be so urgent about pulling the branch from a tree, and then he saw It was no tree they pulled on, but Rehad, standing just within the forest edge. —  J
• Still, for all the jockeying, rarely has a political race been so packed with peculiar uncertainties that would complicate any campaign, any fundraising effort, any hope of a strategy at all. —  STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
• Meanwhile, rumors have it that State District Judge Wayne Mallia (405th District Court) of Galveston is jockeying to be at least on Obama's radar for a possible appointment to the federal bench. —  The Daily News - News
• Even there, occasional in-fighting has flared as the jockeying for money begins. —  StarTribune.com rss feed

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