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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past six years, the Israeli Samaritans will journey to join their brethren for Passover on Mount Gerizim. Bearing gifts of clothes, toys and fruit, the 130 men, women and children will cross the border at Jerusalem's Mandelbaum Gate, climb aboard buses for the 70-minute ride to the sacred mountain on which they must remain during the whole seven days of Passover, in accordance with Jordanian security regulations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Samaritans | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

...Boston Garden. They opened April fifteenth. I bought a big straw hat just to ride the swan boats...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Swan's Song | 4/25/1959 | See Source »

Jessie sat on the Gordon Linen sacks in the Radcliffe Quad putting forsythia into her hair. Suddenly she shot upwards and ran spring-like towards an oncoming Volkswagen. "Clipper!" she shouted, "I want to go ride the swan boats. I want to buy a balloon and blow bubbles and ride the swan boats...

Author: By Alice P. Albright, | Title: The Swan's Song | 4/25/1959 | See Source »

...with a swipe of his fist, he never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage is set for a vicious contest of wills. He has never been up against a man like de Goltz, and in the intrigue that follows Bluphocks meets disaster, as does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Terror in the Desert | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...crossed the line, Gordon threw the baton high into the stands. Ten steps later, he was mobbed by his teammates. In seconds he and coach Bill McCurdy were receiving a free ride to the dressing room to the accompaniment of "Harvardiana." It was a fitting ending to a great...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Track Team Upsets Army, 88-52, In First Meet of Spring Season | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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