Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McNaughton's rigorous schedule still sets a fearful example for young reporters. While others ride Washington's social whirl, he finds few things urgent enough to prevent him from settling down in his library between 9 and 1 o'clock each night. His favorite reading: Oliver Wendell Holmes' decisions and the Congressional Record...
...torpedo is said to be almost twice as fast as earlier models, and able to travel accurately to the operating depth of any known submarine. Small and maneuverable, it has its own Sonar for seeking out enemy craft that have killed their engines to ride out an attack in silence. No telltale wake of bubbles comes up from its chemically fueled motor, said the Navy, and it can be launched not only by submarines, but also by surface ships and airplanes. The Navy now expects to reinstall torpedo tubes on all warships smaller than heavy cruisers...
...Eduardo Baeza Alegria laid the blame for the riots on "Communist agitators." That might well be true, although Barceloneses could understand their grievances without help from the Communists. The current battle of Barcelona followed a remarkable, week-long rebellion over a simple, nonpolitical issue: the price of a trolley ride...
...wagon was dark, according to Fisher, and in the short ride to the station there was considerable violence inside the car. Just how much violence, Fisher was unable to determine accurately, although he claims several passengers were considerably more bruised when they emerged at the station...
Weber and Hayek rounded up a nucleus of professionals. For the rest, says Weber, "we took in everyone who could creep and crawl." The non-pros include mailmen, policemen, engineers, salesmen and a chiropodist. One musician, an accountant, rides his motorcycle 30 miles from his Watertown job, wearing an old Air Force flying suit over his tuxedo, to play. Until she retired to have her fourth baby, his wife used to ride with him, clutching her cello. Now, at their five concerts a year in the Soo-seat Waukesha High School auditorium, Waukeshans hear creditable and sometimes even polished performances...