Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...subway came Karel Douba, 32, who claims to be the ping-pong champ of northern Czechoslovakia, and his blonde girl friend. They told how they had crossed the Czech border by carrying a basket of mushrooms and posing as pickers. In the Soviet zone of Germany they thumbed a ride, found that the driver who slowed down to pick them up was a Red policeman. He took them to Berlin without question. Douba said he recently finished serving a year's jail term imposed when a Communist agent heard him joking in a restaurant about Czech sportsmen...
Friend with Light Bulbs. One incident, friends agree, shook the young King badly and may have helped change his course from unquestioning friendship for the West. In February 1942, when Rommel was within a few hours' tank ride of Alexandria, an Egyptian cabinet crisis developed, and it appeared that the King might name a pro-Axis Prime Minister. The British asked the King to name Nahas Pasha, who was friendly to the allies. Farouk, then at outs with Nahas, refused. Obviously, the British had to do something, but some Britons in Cairo now be lieve that the manner...
Price of Peace. Good form among battling Guajiros requires that a warrior ride up to the enemy, dismount and shoot his own horse first, to show self-confidence. In spite of such horsing around, the Blackbirds and the Weasels managed, in two years, to kill 41 of both tribes and rustle countless livestock. A fortnight ago, fed up with fighting, they decided to try again to work out a peace...
...liked to ride a bicycle to the office, and got there promptly at 8 every morning. When his day's work was done he was happiest in his library. He bought and read everything he could about American history, until books overflowed to the attic and the basement. "A man's education," said Ziegler Sargent, "never ends...
Last week Charlie Wilson swore Bedford in as head of the Production Executive Committee, gave him power to ride herd on the whole defense program. A few hours later, Bedford took off on a tour of West Coast aircraft and ordnance plants, hunting new bottlenecks to unclog...