Word: rider
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Another rider acknowledged that she usually returned books "at a slower rate than I pick them up." She said she did mean to return all the books--eventually...
...public atmosphere was, of course, very different, and he, like Marcel Duchamp and other artists in the avant- garde circle that formed around the collectors Louise and Walter Arensberg, took a special delight in sowing his work with sexual hints. The handlebar of a vaudeville trick rider's bicycle turns into a penis aimed at his crotch; sailors dance with girls in a cabaret but ogle one another; in some still lifes, the flowers and vegetables acquire a nudging suggestiveness. Sigmund Freud was so much spoken of in this milieu that, Writer Susan Glaspell complained, "you could...
...trick is to keep your energy up," says Jerry Midder-Rider, 32, a veteran fire fighter from the Blackfeet Reservation in Browning, Mont. "You just work, sleep and eat." Midder-Rider is warming himself by a gas heater at a base camp deep in the Klamath National Forest, scene of the worst fires and several deaths. Exhausted after twelve hours on the line, he enjoys relaxing briefly with companions from as far away as Maine and Alaska. "We're all equal out here," he says. "That makes all the difference...
bicycle: lightweight, two-wheeled, steerable machine propelled by its rider; the bicycle is said to be the most efficient means yet devised to convert human energy into propulsion...
...Badham's measure has been trumped by a rider from Republican Congressman Herbert ("Sonny") Callahan of Alabama, who proposed that the Pentagon reimburse Dravo for losses incurred between last October and such time as the repeal is signed into law. Callahan too has reason to be sympathetic: Dravo is a major employer in his district around Mobile. The Dravo PAC has also provided him with $4,000 in recent years...