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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nosed out of the cloud. He was flying in the open, but all around him were high fog and more clouds. Comte headed into the fog, flew through steady downdrafts until he broke out again at 6,000 ft., 70 miles from where he had started his high, wild ride. For an hour and a half he tried to get around the rain fronts that hemmed him in, but he was finally forced down at Vredefort, 150 miles from his destination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Through the Thunderhead | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...adding others. During the past few months, the U.S. Army has replaced its inconspicuous jeeps with a fleet of 800 sleek, wide-bodied, olive-drab sedans, which use up more parking space in Tokyo's already jampacked streets, while apparently serving no more useful purpose than a softer ride for occupation brass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Don't Hug Me Too Tight | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...drink, and regularly used to sit up all night playing poker. He learned to fly his own plane, and, until the Army commandeered it during World War II, liked to scare Lila by buzzing their house. He drives his car so recklessly that few who know him will ride with him. He still likes to play pranks. Once, on his way to a Halloween party, he sent word that he had been hurt in an auto accident. Then he tottered in, in Mercurochrome-splashed bandages. On another occasion, calling on a Digest editor to meet his new bride, Wallace broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Common Touch | 12/10/1951 | See Source »

...protected by treaty regulations. Navajos are cheap; they keep their mouths shut and they do as they are told. When the season ended at Burley, Idaho, a Navajo beet picker named Kee Chee dumbly obeyed orders to get his family on a chartered bus for the long ride home to New Mexico-even though it meant taking his sick, seven-month-old daughter out of a hospital at nearby Bear River City, Utah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANS: The Dead Baby | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

...Only Saw Him Once (Rosemary Clooney; Columbia). Rosemary Clooney takes a sweet ballad for a gentle ride, proves again that she is one of the best female vocalists around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Nov. 26, 1951 | 11/26/1951 | See Source »

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