Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dacha next day, Nixon and Khrushchev issued a joint statement protesting that their exchange at the U.S. exhibition, while "frank," was not "belligerent." Then Khrushchev took his guests for a ride on the Moscow River in a 25-ft. motor boat. Eight times Khrushchev had the boat stopped so that he and Nixon could talk to groups of bathers on the beaches along the river, and each time, with broken-record repetition, the same thing happened. Khrushchev would point out the bathers to Nixon as "captive people"; they would yell "nyet, nyet," and Khrushchev would grin, nudge Nixon...
...confidential memorandum circulating among the party's presidential hopefuls last week, Schlesinger argues that the country, with tidal regularity, goes through alternating cycles of liberalism and conservatism every 15 or 16 years. A new reform era is coming in a few years. But meanwhile, Democrats should ride the conservative crest and adapt to the changes. "Instead of the quantitative liberalism of the '30s, we need now a 'qualitative liberalism,' dedicated to bettering the quality of people's lives and opportunities. We can now count the fight for the necessities of living-a job, a square...
...slouch, lounge, saunter, flock together" or "to sit or lie" after dark along public roads. Maximum penalty: a fine of 300 guilders ($79) or two months in jail. Love-smitten Urkers hoped to get around the ban simply by taking to the woods on the mainland, a short bike ride away. Mourned one oldtimer: "Our world is turned upside down nowadays in Urk, and all because of that rotten dike...
...ceremony, the carts are torn down and the lumber sold to contractors.) The deities themselves take two weeks of preparation. First they are taken from their thrones to the holy bathing pavilion and bathed with scented water from 108 pitchers. Then they are repainted and dressed for their ride...
...nature; destroy nature and you destroy man. His ark is the archive in which he stores the species and records their curious lore; in recent years, many a neo-Noah has splashed a bright coat of paint on his scholarly scow and invited the general public along for the ride. Germany's Herbert Wendt (In Search of Adam) is a skillful skipper for this sort of trip, and he brings his passengers home with their intellectual pockets full of odd and fascinating information about almost everything from the housecat to the hoolock...