Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...film, The VIPs, and wound up resting her pretty bones in a wheelchair after what was described as "manipulative surgery," meaning resetting the knee. Poor Richard had his troubles too. Getting into a cab near Paddington railway station, Burton found himself competing for the ride with six narrow-panted Teddy boys. "Suddenly somebody lunged out," recounted Burton afterward. "Then a really small boy got me on the ground and I was helpless. They kicked me all over." The rascals got the cab, and Dickie got a black eye, a torso full of bruises and an unsightly gash on his nose...
...claimed with total spuriousness for most of his 82 years. "My father was a bum," says Havemann affectionately. "The best job he ever had was driving a laundry truck." In his skinnier days, however, Father Havemann jockeyed horses and, when he put on too much weight to ride, cultivated a passion for losing money at tracks. Like father, like son. Young Ernie bought his first Daily Racing Form at the tender age of twelve...
...when Larrazábal's Air France 707 arrived, an uncontrollable mob of thousands overflowed the airport chanting "Viva Larrazábal" and "Down with Betancourt." In the crowd was TIME Correspondent Moisés Garcia, who was invited to ride with Larrazábal on the triumphant trip into Caracas. In the crush, Larrazábal's aides pulled Garcia in through a rear window while two Venezuelan National Guardsmen yanked on his legs to keep him out. Garcia was an eyewitness to the enthusiasm...
...than the Peking-controlled Bank of China-which was deliberately built a few feet higher than the British-run Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank. Resplendent with Venetian mosaics and bulletproof glass counters, the new Hang Seng building is an aluminum-and-glass monument to the ability of Chinese businessmen to ride out shifting political tides. In 30 tumultuous years. Hang Seng has grown from a modest gold changer with capital of $21,000 to Hong Kong's biggest Chinese-owned bank, with assets of $63 million...
...City, through the symbols of a dead past and a lifeless present. In despair she retreats into fantasies of flight from a world where money talks so loud that the heart cannot be heard. She greasepaints her body and makes like a Mau Mau; she goes for a plane ride and imagines she's a bird. But the paint washes off and the wings of fancy moult. The world is still there. She decides to make terms with it. But in gaining the world, will she lose her own soul...