Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle of the spring term, the Boston Elevated Railway Co. lowered the rates of a ride to Park St. from 8c to 5c. Apparently to took too much time to count the pennies. The Federal Railway Commission set the price of meals on interstate rail-roads at $1.25 a plate, thus assuring that Californians would no longer have to fast on their four-day trip East...
WINNING. Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward appear as a husband and wife whose marital trials are enacted against the roar of the auto-racing circuit. The film gives a pretty bumpy ride overall, but it's a pleasant enough vehicle for the Newmans...
...Dancers," no fleshy production numbers. ("I don't go in a lot for that flashy stuff.") Nothing but a minimum of talk and then down to the substance of Johnny Cash and his show: singing songs. One regular singing session that Cash conceived and is particularly proud of: "Ride This Train," a wandering medley of folk songs and film clips through times and places in American history...
...better to interview museum curators, NASA officials, or the ladies of the local conservationists' league. Heaven only knows what constitutes a genuine, worth-listening-to intellectual, but heaven does know that it takes more than one semester on the dean's list and one ride in a paddy wagon...
...thrall, it was at least partly because of the infectious enthusiasm of the crew, who are all veterans of earlier space flights but nonetheless "oohed" and "ahed" at each new sight with the wonder of rookies. From the first moments of the flight, when Cernan cried, "What a ride! What a ride!," the astronauts bubbled with excitement. They repeatedly used the word fantastic. They talked so much that one capsule commentator in Houston complained half-seriously: "I couldn't get a word in edgewise." They joked with ground controllers and serenaded them with such pretaped tunes...