Word: canter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Burt, who was voted best horse judge in the U.S. last year. "As we get more citified, there's more demand for release, for open spaces. Now that people can afford horses, it's bound to grow." Increasingly, families are discovering that a brisk morning canter is not only fine exercise; it also opens up new country-even in relatively built-up areas...
...rise during the year about $7 billion to $80 billion. Were peace to be negotiated in Viet Nam, the economy would swing to a vastly different peacetime basis. In the event of a broader war, not only would defense outlays increase even more, but inflation would switch from a canter to a gallop...
...BEST TIMES, by John Dos Passes. An informal canter through a "narrative panorama" of the U.S. of the recent past. Historian-Journalist Dos Passes, having suffered ideological tumbles on both the left and right, now has come to rest on a distrust of all systems that claim to improve mankind at the cost of freedom...
...luxury hotels are also proliferating in the Neighbor Islands. Empress of the group is Laurance Rockefeller's $15 million Mauna Kea on Hawaii. Among its attractions: rooms and promenades full of Polynesian wood carvings, inner courtyards luxuriant with bamboo, hibiscus and banana trees, plus exclusive rights to canter over the Parker ranch with jovial Hawaiian paniolas (cowboys) and a challenging 18-hole $2,000,000 golf course. Since its opening in July, 1965, Mauna Kea has been virtually S.R.O. It is raising its rates this month to $51 and $65 for a double, including two meals...
...that he "intended to be the kind of American you would like to see in your country." So it was no surprise when he showed up at the Dublin Horse Show astride his eight-year-old gelding, properly named Shaun, and proceeded to ride off with the walk-trot-canter event, even though he had not ridden competitively for 25 years. "I am delighted and grateful to have a win at the best horse show in the world," murmured the ambassador as he accepted his prize...