Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only real trouble today will come from Northeastern. They have their best team ever and look very strong. The other entries, B.U., B.C., Tufts, and M.I.T., are along for the ride and are expected to pick up just a few points. They can, however, play the role of spoilers, since the meet will be won or lost on the team's ability to pick up many seconds, thirds, and fourths...
...construction. In addition., the subterranean temperature at a five-mile depth might be as high as 265° F., and a passenger vehicle would need an immense cooling system. Finally, because a perfect vacuum could not be created within the tunnel, and because the vehicle would probably have to ride on some sort of rail, friction would slow it down-leaving it with insufficient kinetic energy to complete its trip without a source of additional power. In a long-distance Washington-Moscow tunnel, which at its midpoint would dip some 716 miles below the earth's sur face...
...make of these terrible twins -"those two poofteroos," as the contemptuous inhabitants of Sarsaparilla see them? At first sight, it would seem that the old Confederate camp had moved to a last site in the real Deep South-Down Under; that the old Spanish-mosstroopers of Southern decadence ride again in New South Wales. White's celebrated style, in its sidelong, suggestive, subjunctive way, might nudge a reader to the conclusion that this is like early Capote or Tennessee Williams. And, somehow, White has contrived to convert a scrubby Australian suburb into standard Old South gothic. Moldering mansions...
Friar Thomas and his boyhood friend Don Alvero de Rafel ride from Segovia to Seville at the summons of Ferdinand and Isabella. Each man is consulted about Columbus' projected expedition west to the Indies. Don Alvero, a knight who has fought the Moors, assures the Queen that the earth is indeed round like a ball. The King, however, turns down Columbus on the grounds that 1) the earth is flat, and 2) Columbus is a Jew. Actually, Columbus was not Jewish, but for some odd reason Fast does not bother to enlighten the King or the reader...
...Congress were elected for four years, members would ignore very significant social phenomena. Some Southern Congressmen, for example, if now serving a four-year term, might be less concerned about the attitudes of their new Negro voting-constituents-in some districts, they could continue to reject Negro voters and ride into office on the President's coattails. A few Southern politicians have begun to make the transitions necessary to please an integrated electorate: they know Negroes will be voting in future elections...