Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans would no more accept the old family doctor than they would ride in his horse-and-buggy instead of their automobiles. You ask: "Is the old family doctor dead?" The answer is yes. For this progress the public should be thankful...
...farm, young Eddy would hear the voices echoing along the creek bottom and he would chime in with That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine, or maybe just practice up on his yodeling. Come sundown, he would toss his hand-me-down Sears, Roebuck geetar into a gunny sack and ride the family mule six miles into town to pick up 75? playing square-dance music...
...discourse endlessly on the subtleties of mule breeding or coon hunting. Most of his early memories are of hard, hard times. His father died when he was eleven, and he eventually had to quit high school to work the family's sharecropper farm. At 18, he hitched a ride on a cottonseed truck and landed a job singing on a radio station in Jackson, Tenn. After three years of internship with Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys ("I sold song books and swept out the auditoriums"), he got married and struck out on his own. At first...
Some composers drink. Others dabble in love affairs. Irwin ("Bud") Bazelon goes to the race track. There, he says, "things crystallize for me. All aspects of life-hope, anxiety, success, joy, failure, anticipation-are capsulized in a two-minute ride. It stimulates...
...comfortably as an old shoe. When he got word last June of his promotion to a job that paid him $557,083 in 1965, he celebrated with Fred Donner and ex-President John Gordon by going to the New York World's Fair and taking the Pepsi-Cola ride...