Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire present population-have fled to the West. Some have braved the guards, watchdogs and barbed wire to slip directly across the long, 400-mile zonal frontier that separates the two Germanys. But most have chosen the safer route through occupied Berlin, where, by Big Four agreement, anyone can ride the subway or elevated train to the freedom of West Berlin, where airliners are waiting to whisk them to safety in West Germany itself...
...veil she wore instead of the accustomed black was easily explained: she had asked Pope John XXIII for the ancient privilege of Roman Catholic queens. The reason for her other departures from the past -forgoing the protocol-prescribed trek up the Noble Staircase in favor of an elevator ride to the second-floor apartment of the Pope, failing to join her husband King Baudouin, 30, for the traditional call on the Vatican Secretary of State-also became clear the very next day: the Pope personally confirmed rumors that the shy, slim queen is expecting a child...
Part newsman, part showman, Von Wiegand brought to foreign correspondence a Sunday-supplement excitement that never waned. When the Hearst papers chartered the Graf Zeppelin in 1929 for a global flight, Von Wiegand, at 55, was as eager to ride it as he was to rush to Manila early in December 1941, at 67, sensing another war. And when war broke out, Karl von Wiegand stood so close to it-at the end of Manila's Pier 7 during a Japanese bomber attack-that concussion permanently damaged the retinas of both eyes. Captured later by the Japanese in company...
...Freedom Ride...
...show African unionists how to organize, the Communists will), the Brussels-based I.C.F.T.U. maintains six fulltime roving representatives in Africa, pumped in $432.000 in hard cash last year. The money goes for union buildings, instruction in collective bargaining, and education of union officials in lands where labor organizers ride bicycles and preach worker solidarity to illiterates who have never heard of Marx, much less George Meany. I.C.F.T.U. makes a point that colonial officials cannot: that the time and money of union leaders in African lands are far better spent in free bargaining with employers to raise wages than in bitter...