Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...official White House dinner (in honor of the Latin American foreign ministers), even when the boss singled her out. Said President Nixon: "We welcome Mrs. Nancy Kissinger on her first visit as the wife of the Secretary of State." Perhaps feeling that he had overdone it, he added a rider: "She's a little liberal, but otherwise she is all right." Then he underlined his doubts: "Don't interpret the word liberal too literally either...
...press. T.E. Lawrence (of Arabia) terminated his romance with himself aboard a British army bike, which he had named George VII. During the '50s and '60s, Hell's Angels on their Harley-Davidsons turned in convincing performances as Visigoths at the gates of suburbia. Easy Rider could not keep off the grass, and Evel Knievel, that star spangled Icarus of the carnival circuit, gives young minibike owners potentially lethal delusions of grandeur. But now, during the lull in the great gas panic of '74, comes a 46-year-old Minnesotan and writer of computer manuals...
...Well, back about five years ago I started riding horses out on the outskirts of town. Then I weighed around 118-122, and I got to be a pretty good quarterhorse rider. I'd go around, and when you didn't have nothing you'd have to kiss a lotta ass and be nice and ask if you could ride their horses in races and things like that. After a while, it wasn't so difficult to ask. And now I've got my own colt, since I got a free stud service from a quarterhorse champion for my ridin...
...three positions, one is primarily offensive, one is primarily defensive and the third is a swing position played by an all-purpose rider. Though each member receives a specific assignment, a good team will trade off positions as the game develops...
...that came to quake at Psycho, different from the bloodthirsty at the bullfights or the gladiator contests, not a lynch mob, not witnesses to an execution. The people at The Exorcist come to get spellbound. This is a trip crowd. It is everybody that turned on to Easy Rider and El Topo, and just about everybody else. The people are looking for cool kicks that let them off clean. And here's what kicks them...