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Word: ridin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their 1958 football machine than any of the other teams--21 of 30 lettermen, a coach, and an offense. Hopes rest mainly on the shoulders of fullback Paul Choquette, second best rusher in the Ivy League last year. Coach John McLaughry's new "side-saddle T" faces some hard ridin...

Author: By John R. Adler, | Title: Varsity to Tie for Second As Penn Takes Ivy Title | 9/29/1959 | See Source »

Westerns, including occasional installments of Earp, manage to be puerile, but they try to buttress the ancient shootin' ridin' formula with realism, characterization, historical trappings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: High in the Saddle | 3/4/1957 | See Source »

...recalled, "I was sent to Brazil to manage the company's cotton compress at São Paulo. On the way down by boat, I happened some way to sit at the captain's table. He was an Englishman, an' he took to ridin' me pretty hard until one night I says to him, Captain, if you mean that I don't drink tea and don't dress up fancy for supper, you're right. But if you mean that I'm ignorant, you're just as crazy as hell." Four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: Frontier, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...Mama you look so fine Ridin' around in that Merc'ry forty-nine, Cause I'm crazy 'bout a Merc'ry Yas, I'm crazy 'bout a Merc'ry Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Oct. 25, 1954 | 10/25/1954 | See Source »

...Rancher Jim sullenly accepts a copy of the Gospel of John. Alone, he does some thinking. Next Sunday, Sister Kay tunes in the Billy Graham hour on the hospital radio. Jim Tyler listens, and comes to a decision. "All my life," he drawls in the climactic scene, "I bin ridin' the wrong trail. I'm turnin' back. I'm goin' God's way-I think it's goin' to be a wonderful ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First Christian Western | 10/8/1951 | See Source »

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