Word: riding
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...same time, Goldwater has tried to offset the effect of the announcement earlier this month that the California primary is much more important than the New Hampshire contest. "Next Tuesday while you are voting," he said in Concord, "I'll be heading a rodco at home. I'l be riding an old palomino named Sonny--twenty-three years old but she rides better than a rocking chair..." (Laughter) "And as I ride down my mainstreet, I want the people in my hometown to point to me and say 'There's the fellah who won so big in New Hampshire.' That...
...Lady said. "Let me talk to the manager," I said. "Listen," the manager said, "You want to review our moom pitcher, you pay to get in like anybody else. We don't care if the University reviews our pitchers or no." I'd been assigned, so we took a ride down to Boylston Street anyway...
Chandler's "Nightshade" contrasts a woman, who lives in a world of "bright flowers and effervescent dreams," with the speaker, a night-person whose world is associated with the subway. This theme has possibilities; certainly the eerie and depressing nature of a 3 A.M. subway ride offers fertile material for the perceptive poet. Yet Chandler's images, completely unimaginative, merely roam between the prosaic ("The city is lonely after midnight") and the ludicrous ("There are flowers in the city of the moon: painted in faded colors on the subway walls...
CARROLL CLOAR-Alan. 766 Madison Ave. at 66th. "The hypersensitive stillness at twilight is broken now and then by sounds that ride in from far off." Faulkner? No, Carroll Cloar, writing about what he paints. Faulkner's South is Mississippi, Cloar's Arkansas, but they are much the same: both are remembered through a homely yet sinister realism. Eighteen temperas. Through March...
Last Friday at 9:08 a.m. more than 25 worried members of the freshman track team began a four-hour bus ride to New Haven. In a little more than six hours they were to face a powerful team from Princeton and a relatively weak Yale squad in the highlight of the indoor track season...