Word: riding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Aryan (primarily Hindi-speaking) in the north, the Dravidian (speaking mainly Telugu and Tamil) in the south. Its peoples range from sultry Sikhs in silken turbans to naked Nagas armed with crossbows; from country dwellers who are seared black by a cruel sun to pale and perfumed maharanees who ride to the beaches of Bombay in air-conditioned Rolls-Royces...
...mind the cold (a windy 50°), there is dancing outdoors in a setting of spotlighted pines and crags. Refreshed by a late theater supper of shrimp Creole or beef stroganoff, customers spin on until 1 a.m., when the gondolas take them on a quick, sobering ride back to earth...
...downbeats on the kettle drums were omens of doom. Cracking fortissimos rapidly fading to a whispered diminuendo, an accumulation of dissonant agonized tones, a carefree pastoral legato phrase, and a lamenting melody on a reedy oboe vividly characterized the fateful day in Dallas and the President's oblivious ride to his death...
...days later, when Johnson flew to Bloomington, Ill., for Stevenson's burial, Goldberg was invited to ride along with the presidential party on Air Force One. Again, during the flight from Washington and back, the two talked at length about the U.N. job. Again, the President did not ask the obvious question, but Goldberg got the drift. "I was very troubled," he said later. That night Johnson phoned the Justice at George Washington University Hospital, where Goldberg was visiting his ailing mother-in-law, and finally made the offer. Goldberg hedged, told the President that he did not think...
...River in New Braunfels, Texas, is advertised by the Chamber of Commerce as the shortest river in the world, running only four miles from its spring-fed source until it spills into the larger Guadalupe River. But some 1,200 tubers flock to it on Sunday afternoons, mostly to ride the steep, 350-yd. stretch where the river swirls like a whirlpool bath. For the sake of togetherness, Texas tubers frequently link feet under arms and form an enormous water snake composed of 40 or 50 tubers. At the end of the run, few tubers have remained linked together...