Word: rider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the military appropriation bill came up last week, Arkansas' dark and taciturn John McClellan proposed a rider directing the President to cut all money measures by at least 5%, and a maximum of 10%. Amidst bellows from Administration leaders that this was a "sham and pretense," to say nothing of an inglorious surrender of Congress' control of the national purse, McClellan's resolution went down...
...boss of Hopalong Cassidy Enterprises, which gets an average 5% royalty on all sales of Hopalong cowboy goods, Boyd is the latest rider in a rich new stampede. While other retail sales have slumped, cowboy clothes and gadgets have gone galloping ahead. In the first 45 days they were on the market, $1,000,000 in Hopalong Cassidy items were sold...
...because the track was dry and hard and the distance, a mile and five-eighths, was punishing. Gordon Richards, Britain's leading jockey, with 163 winners this year, was aboard the favorite, Ridge Wood. The other horse was Courier, ridden by Tommy Lowrey. Each trainer had told his rider to let the other horse set the pace...
Heavily muffled passengers in Santiago's trim blue-green tramcars kept their distance last week, averted their faces when a fellow rider coughed. Movies played to half-empty houses night after night. As the year's first snowfall melted on Santiago's streets, Chileans shivered in one of the worst grippe epidemics in their country's history...
Said Milles, who considers the statue one of the best things he has ever done: "Greek and other artists always depicted Pegasus with the rider on his back, while I visualize the poet flying independently . . . both animal and man having expressions of longing for something, we don't know what . . ." A few visitors called Pegasus the most improbable thing they had ever seen in their lives; many more gasped in sheer admiration...