Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Ride. At the Dallas airport, nearly 5,000 people were waiting. The President, in a dark blue suit, stepped from his plane smiling happily. He and Jackie were met by a committee that gave her a bouquet of red roses. Their car was ready to leave, but Kennedy had to shake hands with some voters. Jackie, her roses cradled in her left arm, also touched the outstretched hands. After a few minutes she started to walk away, but, noticing that her husband was still at it, smiled fondly, said "There he goes," and returned...
...last week, when Voronin and Miakotnykh drove down to the river bank, known as "le Beach," for the ferry ride over to Brazzaville, Adoula's cops decided to stop them on the way back and find out what they had been up to. Surrounding their car at the landing stage, Congolese police insisted on a search. With a shrug, the Russians opened the trunk, then let them look in the front and back seats...
...Word for "Worthy." Partly supported by 55 Protestant denominations, each with its own interpretation of Scripture, the Society must by its own constitution hew as closely as possible to the original meaning "without note or comment." Inevitably, however, some of its translations have to ride roughshod. In the Maquiritare language of Venezuela, translators discovered, there is no word for "worthy." So in translating Mark 1:7, they changed one passage to read: "After me comes one who is greater than I. I cannot remove his sandals because he is greater than I." The Venezuelan tribesmen took the sentence literally, visualized...
...fall 1,000 eager Harvard students volunteered for civil rights work-notably in the Northern Student Movement's tutorial program. Tutoring Negro children is this year's top project at campuses from Reed to Vassar to Wayne State. "This isn't like a one-shot freedom ride," explains an enthusiastic Wayne coed. "This is giving of your time and of yourself on a continuing basis...
Faculty members are also plagued by commuter problems. "Don't forget we just breeze in and breeze out too," one professor noted. A teacher who anticipates an hour's ride home may hesitate to chat with students after class. And faculty friendships, like student relationships, suffer from the daily migration: staff members frequently complain that they have few opportunities to meet anyone outside their department...