Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...effects of the strike overbalanced the cost of ending it. We accepted his recommendation." Long Island commuters, after nearly a month of overcrowded highways and desperate expedients for getting to work, seemed willing to pay a hike of less than a cent per day for the old familiar ride...
...shot was the first of a series de signed to test the re-entry and recovery possibilities of the one-ton space cabin, a duplicate of the capsule in which the first astronaut will ride in the first attempted manned space flight-originally scheduled for this year but now probably delayed until 1961. As far as National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists could tell, the Atlas had been programing properly; the failure was a result of an "explosion or structural disintegration" of the missile...
...politicians' phrase has it be "one heartbeat away" from the presidency. But the secret creed of ardent Rockefeller partisans on convention eve seemed to be that Nixon without Rockefeller will lose in November, that Rockefeller will suffer no party penalties, will capture the G.O.P. for himself in 1961 and ride on triumphantly to nomination and victory over President Jack Kennedy...
...sailor, new to sea commuting, has fallen into the East River. An occasional commuter was heard to grumble: "Maybe they'll find out the Long Island Railroad isn't necessary, and it'll just disappear.'' But the majority were clearly ready and eager to ride the rails again. None will be happier than Commuter Thomas M. Goodfellow, president of the railroad. "Driving to work from my home in Garden City has gotten to be a damnable nuisance," he says. "When we settle the strike, I'm going to be the first commuter...
...ticket to Tokyo had been bought by the Ikeda faction. But before he could board the plane, he was approached by a forceful hakoshi, or delegate rustler, from a rival faction, who persuaded him to swap his air ticket for a first-class train ride, "all meals paid for, and plenty of sake." But once aboard the train, the delegate fell in with a smooth-talking hakoshi of the Fujiyama faction, who persuaded him to descend for a night of pleasure in the resort town of Atami, 60 miles short of Tokyo. Before resuming the journey next day. the delegate...