Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stashing away one racket for another, rangy Negro Tennistar Althea Gibson began work on her first Hollywood role: a slave who ladles Southern comfort to her mistress when the boys ride off in old pro Director John Ford's Civil Warmup, The Horse Soldiers...
...prices of one-way tickets for close-in riders, thus making it costly to be an irregular, close-in commuter. But it scaled down the increase so that there was no change in fares for far-out riders and little change in monthly tickets. Heineman promised a much faster ride for the extra money...
...year commuter deficit. So confident is Heineman that his new commuter plan will turn red ink to black that he has ordered 36 new, air-conditioned, 161-passenger commuter coaches at a cost of $5,600,000. Says Ben Heineman: "If we can provide a fast, reliable, comfortable ride, then people will ride the suburban railroad, and read the papers and relax in preference to beating their brains out against traffic. It is our conviction that by using ingenuity...
...Reds. Emphasizing yet again Zhivago's inner quest for the truth of his own being, Pasternak settles the doctor in a town that is his symbolic namesake, Yuriatin. Inevitably, Lara is there; and despite his remorse, Yurii is once more unfaithful to his wife. On a horseback ride back from Lara's. Physician Zhivago is kidnaped by a band of Red partisans, and for the next couple of years he is their captive medic in the White-Red struggle in Siberia...
...Prospects Are Pleasing, by Honor Tracy. Ireland and Irish eccentrics are taken for a bumpy ride in a novel that clearly kids just about every posture peculiar to the country that James Joyce called "Errorland...