Word: riding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase sectarian tensions. The nuclear tests should not be an occasion for "jingoistic euphoria," warned the Hindu, a national daily. But since the B.J.P. has a long history of whipping up just such sentiments to improve its political standing, it seems inevitable that Vajpayee and company will try to ride India's new membership in the nuclear club all the way to a majority government...
...March, Six Flags over Georgia offered a Jeep to the person who rode the Scream Machine, a roller coaster, for the longest time. After 60 days, the park declared a three-way tie. JONATHAN THOMPSON, DARTHY BROWN and DION HUGHES, left to right, had spent 17 hours a day riding the rails, with small breaks for food. "Any of us was willing to go 100 days," says Hughes. "I just adapted to an everyday way of life on a roller coaster." Why do it at all? "I thought it would only last two weeks," says Brown. For now, Hughes...
Unlike Larry McMurtry, the other contemporary master of the artful oater, McCarthy is concerned more with the what-was of storytelling than with the what-next. In McMurtry's Old West, cowboys ride off in clouds of eventful folklore. McCarthy's brooding buckaroos fade slowly, like denim, into a meticulously authenticated past. The novels are both stoic laments for the vanishing wrangler and lively repositories of regional landscape, foods, clothes, gear and idioms--enough of them in Spanish to suggest the coming of the bilingual novel...
McCarthy's abundant literary skill barely keeps him on top of his material. It can be a spellbinding ride. He is a virtuoso of the lyric description and the free-range sentence, as well as a connoisseur of cantinas and ranch kitchens. A lot of whiskey and coffee goes down and many wooden matches are ignited by horny thumbnails before John Grady Cole and a Mexican pimp named Eduardo square off with knives over the fate of Magdalena...
...vote and that taking on immigrants, especially Latino immigrants, was a political gold mine. Voters passed Proposition 187, which sought to cut off illegal aliens' benefits. Governor Pete Wilson won re-election with ads showing grainy figures scurrying across the southern border, and some suspected that he could ride the issue all the way to the White House...