Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...good health of the American Vice President, and two, that I be allowed to come to America. Allah, as you see, has fulfilled both wishes." Bashir recalled that when scoffers back home had predicted he would die of a heart attack in the excitement of his first jet ride, he had replied: "Then I will have died while going to see a friend...
...journey, from the plains of Texas to the office of President Kennedy, to the final, bewildering stopover in Manhattan. Bashir continued to drop his petals and to charm the natives. Finally, just as he was about to depart from the U.S. on his jet-propelled magic carpet ride back to Pakistan, Bashir got a telegram from Lyndon Johnson that moved him to tears. Wired L.B.J.: "Since your return to Pakistan takes you so close to Mecca, arrangements have been made through the People-to-People program for you to visit there." Cried Bashir Ahmad: "Allah be praised...
...Ride!, is a song-and-dance adaptation of the John Cecil Holm-George Abbott 1935 hit play Three Men on a Horse, about a gentle soft-spoken greeting-card poet named Erwin Trowbridge, who has an infallible talent for doping out horse-race winners. As the Poet Trowbridge, George Gobel should have been a natural. Instead, the only thing that stands up in his performance is his crewcut. He is so meek, mild, and mousy as to seem spiritless. Composer Jay Livingston and Lyricist Ray Evans have concocted some tender little lullabies for him to croon, but Gobel...
Deep in Act II. Let It Ride! breaks out of the starting gate with a funny, frenetic song-and-dance item, Just an Honest Mistake, in which a stageful of cops update A Policeman's Lot Is Not a Happy One. The rest of the production has about as much zip as Churchill Downs in December...
...multiplying variety of long-playing albums apparently aimed at all the jolly clods whose upper and lower lips wrestle while they read. These Records for Illiterates-there are hundreds-give the word on everything from Human Fertility to Communist Trickery; they tell how toTrain Your Dog, fly an airplane, ride a horse; they even advise, in ministerial tones, what to do If the Bomb Falls...