Word: mount
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carson City, he was in a hurry to sell as many necklaces and roach clips as he could to the concertgoers. I hadn't heard of any concert, but he'll, he'd been hitching 20 years against my two weeks, and we made it as far as Mount Shasta, California before a rainstorm and the approaching cold night forced us to seek shelter. We were just glad to be there--all day long we'd been stoned out of our minds because the only people who pick up two male hitchers who looked like we did have hitched themselves...
...first time. More important, perhaps, Davidson faced one of the toughest courses ever devised for horse and rider. With roots going back to the bloody cavalry charges and elegant military tattoos of the 18th century, three-day eventing tests the full range of a mount's abilities, from deft, close-quarter maneuvers to a cross-country marathon and stadium jumping...
Davidson, who calls himself a "gentleman farmer" and once described his profession as caring for the family investments, trains full time, eight hours daily. Getting ready for Lexington, his mount often was Irish Cap, a big 14-year-old bay that had carried him to success in both the 1974 Burghley competition and the 1976 Olympics, where he had been a member of the winning team. Says Davidson of the unremitting work: "If you play any sport on this level, you have to give it all you have...
...conservative's conservative, Avi Nelson, has come from the world of radio talk shows to mount what could be a serious challenge to Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass.) for the Republican nomination...
...doubt they [the PLO] have the capacity to mount more than sporadic opposition," Michael Walzer, professor of Government, said yesterday. He added that the opposition would probably not have an effect on the outcome of the peace initiative, citing the lack of impact of the opposition to Sadat's trip to Jerusalem last November...