Word: rider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when not fluttering like a bird is secretly drinking like a fish. After a while the play shifts to farcical romance between an engaged Natchez belle and an enraged Yankee writer whose book Natchez has banned. But the satire keeps on recurring with the monotonous regularity of a lone rider on a merry-go-round...
...Rider...
...Clause, Again" [TIME, July 31]: This war risk clause has been instituted by a good many of the 600 American life insurance companies. Connecticut General was among the earlier ones to ... add a war rider or some other restriction to new insurance policies for men likely to be called for military service...
...used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
...thirds of the way around the three-lap course, right in front of the medieval town hall, it happened that Pietrino came shoulder-to-shoulder with the rider for a ward he had once deserted. Pietrino suddenly found himself clamped against the inside rail, was knocked off his horse and carried away with a broken ankle...