Word: riding
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...target country. Exploded under two miles of water (at the aggressor's will and from great distance), a 20,000-megaton bomb would stir up a wave whose crest would still be 100 feet high after it had traveled 200 miles. It would wash most coastlines bare and ride far inland...
...than political. He reasons that the student regards himself as a political "out," and is thus forced to couch his comment in a radical, demonstrative yet non-political way. Presumptuously though, Mills assumes that the liberal segments of society will probably be responsive when the students (through a freedom ride, a peace march, an anti-HUAC demonstration) make their grievances clear...
Thank you for the enormously kind way you described my ride at the Washington horse show [Nov.'3]. Actually it was a very nice horse, and if he'd had any kind of a chauffeur up on him at all, he'd have done pretty well. Anyway, Bobby says if I can be referred to as the onetime scourge of the equestrian East, give him five more years and he'll be All-American...
After 45 years of riding the neighborhood circuits, the pure-bred Hollywood hay-burner sure is a sorry hunk of horseflesh. But this time, Director Michael Curtiz gives the critter a tolerable tricky ride. He rowels out a few bursts of speed, and when there's nothing left but wheezes he plays them for horse laughs...
...under a microscope to be examined by a television camera. If the camera reports to earth that the dust contains spores that may have the power of coming to dangerous life, the first manned voyage to the moon will be equipped to keep the spores from hitching a ride to earth...