Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minnie Lee Baskin was bulldozed into resigning (TIME, March 3), no one in rural Lakeland, Ga. thought that she would ever teach there again. Her excellent 21-year teaching record was far outweighed by her act of allowing one of her pupils, a nine-year-old white boy, to ride home in a Negro school bus because the white bus had already left and her own car had a flat tire...
...President is probably winning as great a battle for the U.S. and the free world as any he ever conducted as an Army commander. By resisting the pressure for ill-conceived spending or "free" money programs, he and his advisers are likely to ride out this recession storm...
...held Sierra Maestra, peered inside, searched the trunk. Said Halper: "I put on an act of lighting a cigar, said nothing, and waved to the soldiers as we went on." Closer to the mountains, Halper hid in a farmhouse while a sugar-cane train chuffed by, guarded by soldiers riding the cowcatcher. In the foothills he changed to a rebel jeep for the rough ride to Fidel Castro's headquarters. Halper spent three days with Castro and his ragged, fanatic followers. For the eyewitness report, see HEMISPHERE, This Man Castro...
...years, rode to greater glory at Florida's Gulfstream Park. Slashing away with his skillful whip, Steve got a two-year-old bay filly named Tempest Tossed to stay in front of her field for three furlongs, and became the seventh jockey in U.S. racing history to ride 3,000 winners...
Flight Test. Fortnight ago, Fleay gave his platypuses a flight test. He put them in grass-lined boxes and took them for a 60-mile ride to Brisbane on a Trans-Australia Airlines DC-3. At Brisbane they seemed cheerful, but when they got back home, they seemed slightly dazed and ignored tempting heaps of wriggling earthworms. Next day Pamela and Paul were back in form, but Paddy kept sticking his head underwater (a sign of distress). When he did not recover his spirits after two days. Fleay liberated him in a nearby river. "Paddy is so sensitive," explained Fleay...