Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convicted in 1948 on a morals charge involving a Russian girl and sentenced to 18 months in prison, Bundock has stayed in the embassy, with the cooperation of the British government, which felt that the Russians had railroaded him. When moving day comes, Bundock will have to ride through Moscow to whatever new quarters the British settle in. Foreign Office diplomats have not yet figured out whether the usual diplomatic immunity will extend to moving vans or limousines, or what they can do about it if the Russians lie in wait for Storekeeper Bundock...
Wild & Woolly. Tompkins started his cowboy career as a 14-year-old doing a traditional task: shoveling manure. Ten hours on the job earned him two hours of riding. "But I never could get enough." Tompkins recalls now. "At night I'd go out in the pasture to ride. I did that for four years." At 19, Tompkins rode his first wild bull ("They're not as squirmy as horses"), and entered his first rodeo in Springfield, Mass. Then an eight-second ride at Madison Square Garden earned him $310, and Tompkins decided that the wild & woolly sport...
...year career that still has 22 games to go. Little (5 ft. 9 in.) Center O'Brien broke the record of 2,592 held by Nate DeLong of Wisconsin State College. ¶Jockey Tony DeSpirito, who got back in the saddle again after a ten-day suspension, to ride 15 more winners and bring his season total to 385. With two days of the season left, DeSpirito was just three short of the record for winners in one year...
...mean a quicksilver brilliance of improvisation backed by more jazz technique than any other clari-BENNY netist can approach: a range of tone from biting cold to haunting hot, and a range of tempo from things so fast they just stand still and tingle to things slow enough to ride while drunk...
When asked whether he planned to sail back to his home, Davis answered, "I don't go tripping around the world at will, but there's a chance I'll return by sailing craft. The currents and winds would make the westward trip a joy ride...