Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There Adlai Stevenson was put up in a restored, 200-year-old building which had been converted from a church into a cottage. For the next five days he planned to sleep, lie in the sun, ride, play some tennis ("I'm also an ex-tennis player," he quipped), and hunt duck and deer across the border. When four reporters and two photographers showed up for a press conference two days after his arrival, he was asleep. They waited until he appeared, still looking a little drawn and weary, dressed in a five-gallon hat, sport shirt, blue jeans...
...Riding last on Democrat for the final go-'round of the course, Steinkraus needed a faultless ride to win. The crowd held its breath as the rider and his old campaigner approached the final obstacle. It was a 5-ft.-high white rail, where almost every other contestant had come a cropper. Up & over went Democrat, cleanly, bringing down a storm of applause. Later, grinning modestly, Billy explained his success by quoting an old jumping axiom: "The horse makes the rider...
They set up housekeeping in a single room in Forest Hills, just a 20-minute subway ride from Manhattan. It was a hand-to-mouth existence. Mrs. Bloom was ill and, because of British monetary regulations, could get little financial help from England. Claire spent her time singing "terribly sad songs," copying out poems from memory (one of her favorites: Poe's ". . . All that we see or seem, Is but a dream within a dream . . ."), or curled up reading her red-leather volume of Shakespeare. She also went to school, but did badly in such practical subjects as arithmetic...
...Coastline train in Virginia when he refused to move to a Negro coach. He sued, and the Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond decided in 1951 the Company's segregation rule was invalid. The Supreme Court now, in effect, has ruled that lines may no longer require Negroes to ride between states in "Jim Crow" cars...
...spirited and the civic-minded. Except in Minnesota, which bars transportation of voters as a corrupt practice, there was hardly a city in which a voter could not get a lift to the polls just by picking up < his telephone. In some towns he could get a free taxi ride, and in Rochester, N.Y. an ambulance was his for the asking, even if he wasn't sick. Orange City, Iowa blew its fire siren every hour on the hour to remind the apathetic that...