Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YORK, Nov. 4--Jim Elder of Canada sped around the course in a faultless ride aboard Isgilde in 30.7 seconds and won the West Point Challenge Trophy as the national horse show began an eight-day run in Madison Square Garden...
...Town. In Nagoya, Japan, Fusao Ochiai missed the last streetcar, swiped a trolley and drove it to his home, soon got another free ride-to jail...
...four more (Van Heflin, Tab Hunter, Richard Conte, Dick York). The colonel then puts Cooper and his heroes in charge of a U.S. citizen (Rita Hayworth) accused of giving aid and comfort (of a suggestively unspecified nature) to the enemy, and orders them north to Cordura, three days' ride across a waterless waste. On the way Cooper tells the men that they will be nominated for the Medal of Honor, and asks them, for personal reasons as well as for Army records, what made them do the heroic things they...
Time fof Chop-Chop. A million candles etch the initials P. and C. against the night sky of Cincinnatus' home town. On the ride to the scaffold, bouquets of flowers pelt P.'s and C.'s open car. The whole vulgar holiday is surrounded by rules and rituals of elaborate illogic. Finally, the moment nears "to do chop-chop," as M'sieur Pierre puts it childishly; and childishly, too, the prisoner seeks to save his last shred of self-respect as he mutters: "By myself, by myself." Author Nabokov saves a climactic surprise for the chopping...
...Boulris bulled over from the five for the Crimson's winning score. The varsity's triple-threat halfback added the two points, and Harvard had only to hold off the Indians for 4:20 to clinch its most exciting win in many years. Coach John Yovicsin got a free ride to the locker room after the game...