Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world, red, blue and green pins and tapes spot churches (1,510 in Greater New York) and prayer groups supporting the campaign. Staff members: 1) channel the activities of 108,415 "prayer partners" in the U.S.; 2) keep tab on 158,817 prayer partners in 48 other countries; 3) ride herd on the "active" cooperating ministers, the "partial-supporting" ministers and the "undecided" ministers; 4) process applications for blocks of seats ("Lancaster, Pa. wants...
...decided Eddie. "I shouldn't have held Bold Ruler back; I shouldn't have run his race for him." So when Wheatley Stable's dark bay colt went to the post at Pimlico for the 81st running of the Preakness, Eddie went along just for the ride. He let Bold Ruler break for the lead, thought nothing of scrapping with sprint star Federal Hill all down the backstretch, worried only when his mount began to loaf after leading the pack past the turn for home. When Iron Liege made his move, Eddie took to the whip...
Back in the 16th century a Chinese scholar named Wan-Hu lashed 47 black-powder rockets to a bamboo frame, clambered aboard the contraption, and as 47 servants lit the fuses, so goes the legend, went on history's first rocket ride. Last week in Wall Street, the stocks of the modern rocket riders were whizzing up as fast as old Wan-Hu. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp., a leader in rocket fuels, shot up 6| points in three days to a new high of 54. Reaction Motors, 50% owned by Olin, has nearly doubled in value in the past...
...Phoebe and Henry Ephron, have added some happy touches of silly business. And though Actress Hepburn tends to wallow in the wake of Shirley Booth, who played the part on Broadway, she never quite sinks in the comic scenes, and in the romantic ones she is light enough to ride the champagne splashes of emotion as if she were going over Niagara in a barrel. Spencer Tracy has one wonderful slapstick scene, and Gig Young does very well with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William Holden. But the real star of the show is Emmy...
Sense of Place. Louise's ride on the carrousel was nearly over. Her oldest son. Willie, was killed in a riding accident at his French chateau. Daughter Eva married an Italian count who proved to be a blackmailer. And on a summer evening in 1902, Louise sat by John Mackay's bedside and watched as he died of pneumonia...