Word: rider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army has long deployed around U.S. big cities its operational point-defense missile Nike Ajax, a beam rider with a range of about 25 miles, but Nike Ajax can easily be deflected by enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more sophisticated, solid-fuel missile with an atomic warhead. And the Army is also developing a specialty item, Raytheon's solid...
Gold Dollar bucketed into the glare of the arena. For eight frantic seconds the wild-eyed animal whipped into impossible contortions, trying to unseat its bareback rider. But Shoulders stuck like hide. When the whistle blew, he slid easily to the tanbark, looking suddenly unnatural, only a man walking on his own two legs...
Take Care. Making such breakneck gyrations look like doing what comes naturally has boosted Jim Shoulders, at 29, into the biggest-money-winning rodeo rider on record. Last year he was top bareback rider, top bull rider and top all-around cowboy for the second time, and he earned $43,381. This season, injuries have slowed him down. He may earn a little less money, but when the season ends this week in Harrisburg. Pa. he should be at the top of the lists once more in bareback bronc and bull riding...
Directed Connection. In Los Angeles, a Metropolitan Coach Lines bus driver rolled six miles nonstop through morning rush-hour traffic, zoomed past red lights and waiting passengers after Rider Netti Appleton, 39, enraged over bus-stop delays, jammed a loaded .38 pistol into his side, barked: "Keep going-I'm late for work...
...society has lost 50 dollars since the first game of the year, when it was forced to cancel service because of the rider shortage. A minimum of 18 couples is needed on each trip to cover bus costs, which have been raised by the M.T.A. since last year...