Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hammer-sickle thick-coated rocket-powered Soviet bears. They eat 700 Ibs. of lump sugar a day and some day their teeth will fall out, but meanwhile they have been so well trained by Valentin Filatov that they are the essential stars of the Soviet circus. They roller-skate, ride bicycles and scooters, and hang from whirling trapezes. Three of them draw a troika. Two of them fight, wearing boxing gloves. They hook and jab at each other's noses with grizzly accuracy (of course, a bear's nose is a big target). They drive motorcycles...
...based Litton Industries-and he was busy on horseback at the most important facet of his job: thinking. When "Tex" (he came from a small Texas town) Thornton has a problem to mull over, he finds that he does his best thinking on a solitary 30-or 40-mile ride through the mountains, where he can "look at the world down there, and the world beyond. It is my way of getting away from it all, getting out where I can clear my head of the traffic of everyday business...
Died. Reginald John Connelly, 67, British composer and music publisher, a onetime vaudeville pianist who authored or co-authored more than 200 songs, but is best remembered for a 1925 ditty dashed off with Fellow Trouper Jimmy Campbell on a train ride between engagements, Show me the Way to Go Home; in Bournemouth, England...
...point (never mind why) a character is riding a mare through a snowstorm. He feels his saddle slipping and rides "like an Indian ducking rifle fire. Was he on her or beneath her? Was it the mane or the tail in his face?" There you have the book. The reader enjoys the ride, then feels himself slipping. A mutinous suspicion arises-does the author really know mane from tail...
Eight forwards constitute the scrum. They "bind" together, forming a mass of power, and attempt to push back the other side's scrum. The lower they "ride," the more success they will have, much as in blocking in football...