Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What he really loves is his automobile. He overlooks his wife with her hair up in pink rollers, sagging into an upside-down question mark in her tight slacks. But he lavishes attention on his Mercury mistress, Easy Rider shocks, oversize slickers, dual exhaust. He exults in tinkering with that beautiful engine, lying cool beneath the open hood, ready to respond, quick and fiery, to his touch. The automobile is his love and his sport...
...terrorists bombed the Nahariya-Haifa bus in 1973, police questioned the driver about suspicious passengers. He could not remember anything until Captain Yshaya Horowitz, head of the hypnosis squad, sent him into a medium-depth trance and asked him to relive his workday. The driver eventually described a suspicious rider with a brown paper parcel under his arm. Working on this lead, Israeli cops quickly collared the Arab bombers, who confessed to the bombing...
Carrying Kissinger's sentiments further than he wanted them to go, Congress passed an amendment to the 1976 foreign military aid and arms sales bill that would have required reports on human rights conditions in countries receiving U.S. aid. President Ford vetoed the entire bill, but the rider's sponsor, Democratic Representative Donald Fraser of Minnesota, says the measure will come up before the White House again early next year...
Then over the cobblestones outside came a rattle of horse's hoofs. Soaking wet and mud-splattered, his face gray with fatigue, Delaware's third delegate, Farmer Caesar Rodney, had ridden all night from Dover after an express rider informed him of his colony's stalemate. He wore a green silk handkerchief, now nearly black with road dirt, to cover the lower part of his face, which is afflicted by a cancer. "The thunder and rain delayed me," Rodney said matter-of-factly as he entered the hall...
...sense, it is a family fight; both horses are grandsons of Bold Ruler, a famous front runner whose offspring have carried that trait. Both have canny jockeys: Baeza, who sits in the saddle like an emperor, and Angel Cordero, New York's top rider in 1975. Of the two, Baeza is considered better at saying whoa to a speed horse. Jolley and Bold Forbes' trainer, Laz Barrera, will each have to guess the tactics of the other before the Derby begins and decide upon his own. Both jockeys will then have to make split-second decisions...