Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spanish "heads of families" went to the polls last week in municipal elections to cast their ballots for a list of government-approved candidates. Voter No. 41 in Section 9, Quarter 5 of Madrid's Revised University District stepped into a Cadillac for the brief ride from El Pardo Palace to a tiny yellow schoolhouse. There, under the gaze of his own official portrait, El Caudillo greeted members of the municipal election board, who graciously waived the usual identification procedure. Franco reached into an inside pocket of his double-breasted dark grey suit, removed an already filled-in ballot...
...saddle?"). For the film's showdown, Wayne and Actress O'Hara square off in the middle of town. Stripped to her shift, Maureen is dunked in a trough, turned bottomside up for a spanking, finally has to take a running jump onto the buggy to catch a ride home. But women need that. In Wayne's West, a bit of rough-and-tumble is all it takes to keep a girl's mind off divorce...
...another first down and then Bobby Leo took a pitchout from quarterback Ray Kubacki and swept around right end. Two nice blocks gave him some running room, but at the ten he met four Princeton defenders. Hardly pausing to acknowledge this added company, he gave all four a ride as he bulled his way down to he three-yard line...
Last December Carole took up housekeeping in a cooperative townhouse at 308 N Street S.W., just a short ride from the Capitol. It was a well-furnished apartment, with prints on the walls, silk draperies in the bedrooms, lavender carpeting in the bathrooms. The parties there were lively. The twist was danced both inside the house and on the patio outside; the convivial drinking and animated chatter lasted long into the night. Some nearby residents noted that visitors appeared in the daytime as well as the evening. "A lot of people used to come through the back gate," recalls...
Elsa Maxwell gave to the world of society, in which boredom is the occupational disease, an illusion that it was composed of marvelously amusing people having a wonderful time. They thanked her for it by giving her a free ride through the caviar-and-champagne life, the transatlantic life, the gaspy-gossipy life, which she enjoyed so much that she made lots of other people enjoy it too. She was a clown always ready and willing to take a pratfall, and she was often compared to a court jester. But Elsa was really a kind of super cruise director, working...