Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...habitual bicycle rider in Cambridge for something over five years, Councillor Sullivan's remarks on the bicycle traffic problem in Harvard Square interest me quite a bit. Unfortunately, the bicyclists who ride an the wrong side of the street are only one factor among many that contribute to the traffic hazard in the Square. Much of the blame and many of the near-misses can be blamed on the behavior of the cyclists themselves...
...trolley cars were running in Beirut again, though it was a bumpy ride through streets torn and pitted by five months of civil war. Joyous bonfires were lit, the shops rolled up their shutters, the barricades began to come down. Shots rang out, but only in celebration; peace had come at last to Lebanon...
Then he took off after another oracle, the late Socialist Harold Laski, who for years taught political science at the University of London. Laski, he charged, had no knowledge of how things operate in human affairs. "Laski, who could not ride a bicycle, said pretentiously and characteristically that if he only had the theory of bicycle riding explained to him, he would be able to ride it. The truth is quite simple, and has nothing to do with theory...
Hours later Dulles announced a typically personal piece of diplomacy: after attending the Pope's funeral in Rome and conferring with Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd in Britain, he would ride his converted Boeing KC-135 jet over the pole, be on Formosa for planning talks with Chiang by midweek. One area of likely discussion: if the Communist cease-fire becomes "dependable," the Nationalists could thin out their forces on Quemoy and Matsu in exchange for a guarantee of increased-but nonatomic-U.S. firepower...
...year. They stressed the idea of an unvarying diet with a single inclusive food (mostly beef-based, cereal-fortified), crusaded for better dog nutrition. They had an irrefutable pitch: dogs that once brought stags to bay need a different diet because they are now slothful city dwellers that ride in taxicabs, get taken to fancy French restaurants, loll around hot apartments watching television...