Word: rider
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...certain amount of upper-body strength is needed to hold the sail aloft, but more experienced wind-surfers are less dependent on muscle power, having learned to use their bodies for leverage. With practice one can reach speeds of 30 m.p.h. Speeds vary according to the weight of the rider: heavier sailors fare better in strong winds, lighter ones in soft breezes...
...good chance of passage. Even if that proposal is defeated, the House Armed Services Committee has proposed a weapons-procurement bill that says nothing about sanctions. Odds are that a HouseSenate conference called to reconcile the two versions of the arms bill would drop the Senate's rider, rather than force Carter into a veto that could not be overridden, and that would oblige Congress to pass the vital weapons bill a second time...
...which he traveled for his dad, and there are horse trails, which he travels for himself. Now Steven Ford, 23, son of the former President, has discovered more happy trails: he plays a deputy in an upcoming comedy western called Cattle Annie and Little Britches. Has the seasoned rodeo rider had any acting training? Sure, says Ford: "The 2½ years I spent being a President...
...listens well and, as one aide puts it, "prides himself on being able to get along with other people." Rather like ex-President Gerald Ford, he has an unnerving gift for bumping into inanimate objects and asking inept questions. For example, he inquired of a moped rider: "Is that motorized...
...West provided a new outlet for Roosevelt's prodigious energies, as well as solace for the deaths of his mother and first wife on the same day. "Black care," wrote Roosevelt, "rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough." He rode hard, surpassing the doughty ranch hands whose ridicule turned to reverence. No body snickered when Teddy read Matthew Arnold on the trail of an outlaw gang...