Word: rider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mountain Meeting. Riding the bus to the office and the university from his home in the Mexico City district of Santa Maria, López Mateos kept running into a fellow rider from the same district named Miguel Alemán. Alemán was already practicing law, and when López Mateos set out to arrange a pension for his mother as a descendant of a national hero, Attorney Alemán saw the case successfully through the courts. "From that time on," says López Mateos, "we have been friends." (López Mateos' mother...
...value the sociological and cultural eminence of such personalities as Captain Midnight, Jack Armstrong and Hop Harrigan. We remember Captain Midnight's Decoder Badges, Sky King's Secret Signal Mirrors, and Secret Compartment Rings. We remember that voice: With his faithful Indian companion Tonto, the daring and resourceful masked rider of the plains brought law and order to the early Western United States. Nowhere in the pages of history can one find a greater champion of Justice. Return with us to those thrilling days of yesteryear. From out of the past come the thundering hoofbeats of the great horse Silver...
...world's great horsemen, helped make Mexico a power in the equestrian world. For long, toilsome hours Vicki and her older brother Humberto Jr., now 18, worked under their father's exacting eye to master Mariles' jumping style, in which the rider stays firmly in the saddle at the take-off point instead of lifting up to urge his mount over the barrier...
...habitual bicycle rider in Cambridge for something over five years, Councillor Sullivan's remarks on the bicycle traffic problem in Harvard Square interest me quite a bit. Unfortunately, the bicyclists who ride an the wrong side of the street are only one factor among many that contribute to the traffic hazard in the Square. Much of the blame and many of the near-misses can be blamed on the behavior of the cyclists themselves...
...cited the "Rough Rider's" belief that America's foreign policy "must rest on strength," and that "force should be at the back of righteousness...