Word: rides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Have the press and the public been giving Bush a free ride? Yes and no. It is true that he has not been subjected to the same intense glare as his opponent, but sitting Presidents rarely are. While challengers can spring from nowhere with nothing more than ambition on display, Presidents are far better- known quantities. Bush, who has already served 11 years as President and Vice President, is a more familiar figure than most incumbents. On the other hand, Bush has been questioned over the years on a number of sensitive issues -- ranging from his family's business dealings...
...nervous for the first few miles. I wasn't sure if I would be able to finish or how long it might take. I would be embarrassed to quit, but the ride west at sixty miles per hour on the Mass Pike had seemed very, very long. The morning air had contained hints of a March chill, and I had dressed accordingly, but by mile three I had tied my sweater around my waist and was carrying my down coat...
...Jake Brederson. Fifty-four years old, this was his twentieth marathon. He ran it once and finished sixty-ninth with a tome of 3:38. That was thirty years ago when there were only two-hundred participants. The rest of his twenty he has walked. One time, his ride did not show up at the finish line, and he did not have any money to get home, so he started walking again...
...Jamaica Plain and tried to thumb a ride, but no one would pick me up, so I just kept on walking down Route 1. Finally someone picked me up at 1-95 and gave me a ride to Attleboro, where I called my wife, and she said, 'why didn't you call me sooner?' I didn't want to bother her, you know...
...Lodge's ability to juxtapose different worlds and to effect a composition out of what might be expected to be contradiction makes his work original. Bernard recalls some lines from The Tempest: Sir, he may live./I saw him beat the surges under him,/And ride upon their backs. "Is that, I wonder, the first description of surfing in English Literature?" Bernard muses...