Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with him when newsmen gathered, explaining, "John wanted to get his picture on TV too"), Singelmann had been able to muster only 65 volunteers, including one family of twelve, another of ten, and at least one integrationist Freedom Rider, who gleefully accepted the racist money just for the ride. Most of the Negroes arrived in New York and Los Angeles, sheepish, shy and startled by flashbulbs and inquiring reporters...
...First Ride. Gary Cooper could have played Joe Walker. Walking as though he were wearing cowboy boots. Walker lards his speech with sounds like "Yup," "I reckon." and "Haw!" and claims that he is just "a physicist who travels." He grew up on a 200-acre farm near the Pennsylvania coal-mining town of Washington...
...oughtn't to turn around. But we went up. finally, in a yellow, two-seat Piper Cub. The pilot kept me up there for half an hour, lettin' me take the stick and whip us through a few turns and glides. After that first ride, there wasn't any doubt what I was goin...
...Austria is like the pretty girl hitchhiking," went the Washington homily. "A car crowded with men slows down to pick her up, but speeds up when her two boy friends come out of their hiding place in the ditch to try to get a ride...
Everything about Titov's ride went perfectly, of course, as is always the case with Russian-described flights of Russian-designed equipment. But if U.S. scientists want to know how a space traveler feels after more than three orbits of the earth, they will have to wait until they have sent one of their own astronauts on the trip...