Word: riding
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...respecting santee. Kirkland's famously well-lit dining hall fills up early and stays crowded. Every accidental clink of glass hushes the crowd in anticipation of another announcement. Some days the skits begin at five o'clock and don't stop until after seven. People sing, people dance, people ride each other like horses. It's a week-long festival for the talented and the aggressively untalented alike. Adams may have the gong, but Kirkland has the show to go with...
...HUPD has hardly proven helpful in the past. Our last experience with these enforcers of law and order seems to typify their attitude. One night, we lost track of time and found ourselves requesting a ride from Eliot to Currier at 4 a.m. in 10 degree weather...
When Cornell's Suzy Onze hit a running half-court shot as the first half buzzer sounded to put the Big Red up 42-41 at halftime, she might have thought that her team would ride her miracle shot to a strong second half...
Thus did the government of Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao finally show resolve in dealing with India's spreading sectarian violence. But the B.J.P. also scored, displaying a measure of discipline lost in last December's riotous destruction of Ayodhya's historic Muslim mosque. Convinced it can ride to power on a Hindu wave, the B.J.P. plans to continue its protest campaign to force national elections...
...pitch," points out Jerry Berns, the 86-year-old co-founder of New York City's "21" Club. Moreover, it does seem unfair to penalize a hardware salesman showing a catalog to a client while sipping Sanka, yet allow a movie mogul to fully deduct a $3,700 ride on the Concorde and a $600 bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel. On the other hand, it isn't Sanka-sipping salesmen but well-fed executives who most savor the deduction and spark the most resentment. And after all, why should a single nickel be deductible at a place like...