Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...next day began with a mob of 1,500 burning and looting a bus terminal, beating up drivers and running off with another 30 buses. When the police did not interfere, they stormed other terminals with Molotov cocktails. Mexico City transport was in chaos. People jammed the old streetcars, riding atop the roofs, crowded into trucks at 1? per ride. In vain Mexico City's bus drivers appealed to the students to stop. Finally, the 13 transport unions took full-page ads saying what all knew: "These young delinquents have proclaimed themselves defenders of the people. They...
...eating chickens buried according to formula in earth ovens, muttering incantations to placate hostile aku-akus, shouting out ritual invocations such as: "Wizard Juan, stand up for good luck!" Only slowly did it dawn on Heyerdahl that the natives might be hipsters who were taking a square for a ride. One native was caught scattering potsherds in an excavation site; Mayor Atan himself twice salted secret caves with stone sculptures that he had made himself...
...when democracy went down to the whistles and catcalls of the Bolsheviks: "The field of action was now beginning to clarify itself somewhat in the manner of one of those Shakespearean battlefields where the opposing armies take up their positions in full view of one another, while the generals ride about from place to place making declamatory speeches...
...Trieste proves the case for a 12,000-ft. sub, its design may be strange. Since only the crew and controls need protection from pressure, all the power and ordnance equipment of such a sub could ride "outside" them in an outer hull filled with oil. Like the thin steel of the bathyscaphe's gasoline float, which feels no appreciable pressure, the sub's outer hull need not be thick and pressurized. It could be made of lightweight aluminum or lithium for greater speed...
...technique of flight, you might say I'm an expert." He needs to be. When he bribes a Rothschild chauffeur into selling him "the last car in all Paris," he is able to prevent its being commandeered by the colonel only by hiding the gasoline until promised a ride. Once aboard, he finds they are heading not south toward safety but north to where the colonel's heartthrob waits. As German staff cars whiz by, the colonel speaks to his lady (Nicole Maurey) of matters urgent: "In the cathedral of my heart, a candle was always burning...