Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confirmed elsewhere, that in the last two months a 'wide variety of foreign observers" had seen the military prototype of a nuclear-powered plane flying over Moscow. For its part, the Pentagon was 1) skeptical that the Russians were already flying a nuclear plane, 2) well braced to ride out the propaganda storm if the Russians do fly the first A-plane and pull off some stunt such as circling the globe nonstop. Reason: While the U.S. is spending about $100 million a year in a slow development of the twelve-year-old nuclear plane program, planners have made...
Last week, thanks to their Big Sisters, Smiths' children were persuaded to bundle into buses and ride off to the nearby town of High Wycombe. There the public hall was gaily decorated, pungent with the odor of cakes and candy, loud with a piano thumping out nursery rhymes and rock 'n' roll. Father Christmas himself arrived with a bag of toys. A year ago the regular Smiths staff might not have been able to get their patients into the hall at all. This year everybody-the shiny-eyed Big Sisters included-enjoyed a wonderful holiday party...
...first issue of the Radcliffe News appeared in 1914. It was originally called the Fortnightly, but when it began publishing weekly it was forced to change its title. It confined itself to covering Radcliffe events, such as in 1914 the Freshman-Senior Tally-Ho Ride to the Middlesex Fells Observatory. It also noted the use of the Agassiz Theatre for a Harvard group called "47 Workshop," which was just beginning its career under the auspices of George Pierce Baker's English 47. Radcliffe was growing and changing at this time, and there was at first a great deal...
...biggest airline-fare bargain in the world. For the $90 economy round-trip fare, the tourist can go from Manhattan to San Juan and return-a total of 3,200 miles at a cost of 2.8? per mile v. 2.9? per mile for an average Manhattan subway ride. The cheap fare, aimed originally at migrating Puerto Ricans. now attracts an estimated 60,000 tourists a year...
...wrote in his acceptance letter. "On the contrary, I am a Catholic of unbreakable faith and a liberal democrat. My acceptance of Communist support does not signify any commitment, present or future." But by running up a big vote, the Reds hope that 1) lesser Communist candidates will ride into office on the red ballot, 2) Larrazábal will take Communists into his government. 3) he will be forever in their debt...