Word: riding
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...appeared they were literally and figuratively taking us all for a ride," Steffen says. "We eventually made them hire another bus for other students and this year we made them charge students full price...
...appeared they were literally andfiguratively taking us all for a ride," Steffensays. "We eventually made them hire another busfor other students and this year we made themcharge students full price...
...Here is a writer, a young new U.S. writer, who instinctively differentiates between the hawk of living and the handsaw of existing. He appears to have lived considerably himself, in unusual ways and places. He knows how trout-fishing in Michigan feels; how Yankee jockeys, straight and crooked, ride on European tracks; how half-breed squaws bear their children back of the logging camps; how bulls and toreros slaughter one another in Spain. How he knows things you cannot say; he writes so directly, without fuss and feathers, with so little explanation of himself. He is that rare bird...
Childhood is the only time and place that grows larger as it is left behind. Two weeks at the seashore appear, in memory, as a floodlit Oz. The first airplane ride might have been to Venus. The early hours spent with radio, TV and films are the foundation of adult imagination. Yet when children grow up, they suffer some sad amnesia of taste. How else could former kids provide television programs designed to do nothing with time but kill it--as if, in Thoreau's phrase, it were possible to kill time without injuring eternity? From the moment...
...Crimson face Vermont, it hopes to avenge a close 4-3 home loss earlier in the season. The Catamounts, however, enter tonight's contest on fire. Unbeaten in their last four games (3-0-1), Vermont looks to ride into the playoffs one of the hottest teams in the conference...