Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Noxon died when Carpenter was 14. Although his mother was out of the sanitarium by this time, she was still too tired to ride herd on the boy, and Scott cut loose. He told a LIFE reporter: "The local papers that say I was just a normal boy are trying to think of something not bad to say. I had a wonderful time, but I was a real rounder. I didn't study hard, and I had to quit high school football because I couldn't devote myself to learning the plays. I stole things from stores...
...helicopters cruising low over Robins Nest Mountain and the scrub pines of Flower Hill. Most were routed from their hiding places by skirmish lines of British troops, and sent to Fanling camp. There, after a nourishing meal, the luckless refugees were herded onto trains or trucks for the short ride back to Red China. Along the way, fellow Chinese tossed food packages into the refugees' outstretched hands. Most of them saved some of the food against the day when they would try again to get into Hong Kong...
Next morning after a hearty pancake breakfast, Khrushchev himself turned up to take Salinger on a 45-minute boat ride on the Moscow River, and make a few jokes about an old comrade named Joseph Stalin, recently reinterred. The two were hardly alone: a secret security agent sat stolidly in the front seat alongside the pilot; a whole boatload of them trailed the Premier's craft at a discreet distance...
...racing. He memorizes every course, locating trouble spots where accidents or traffic jams are likely to occur, picking his spots for passing and for his final sprint. Like most top racers, he employs a flying squad of domestiques, whose job is not to win themselves but to harry opponents, ride in front to break the wind, trade bikes if Van Looy's breaks down, and ensure that he has clear sailing for his sprint to the finish. Most domestiques are hired for their brawn, not their racing ability. But Van Looy's eleven-man, cardinal-jerseyed "red guard...
...that theologians should not take themselves too seriously: "There is something demonic in people who have God under their belt." He also believes that religious thinkers should follow their Christian convictions into action; last July, he spent 24 hours in a Florida jail for taking part in a Freedom Ride...