Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the X-13 returned from a brief horizontal joy ride, it slowed down and tilted its nose upward. Then it backed down toward earth, standing on its column of gas, and walked steadily toward the platform. A man was waiting at the top of the platform to help Pilot Girard during the critical operation of engaging the hook. He watched the X-13 approach until its hook was above the cable. Then he pressed a control that raised the supporting arms, slipping the cable under the hook. That was the end of the flight. The platform was cranked down...
Hollywood's answer to Harriet Stowe has an antebellum South where slaves sing in King Cotton's fields, and dance joyfully to the amusement of the kindly massas from the Big House. The South will not endure the North's dictation, and so her sons ride off from Wingate Halls garlanded with tears and cheers, to christen the Stars and Bars in Yankee blood at Bull Run. Though the war ends with Lee's majestic surrender to sloppy old Grant, the wounded sons return home to begin a spirited restitching of their tattered Dixie-land until Lincoln--brave, tall...
...last the spill was reported to the AEC, and a news item from Washington told the Houston papers. A wave of hysteria beat on the Kellogg plant and the people concerned with its accident. Friends of Mrs. Northway refused to ride to church in her car. Excitement increased when the Northway and McVey houses were vigorously decontaminated...
With the hopes of Eastern, Ivy, and Big Three championships almost gone, the varsity will attempt to ride through the rest of the season without a loss, and hope that Princeton drops a match someplace along the line. The sailing will be clear until next Thursday when the varsity meets a powerful Yale squad in its final meet of the year. Only Dartmouth, weak Cornell and Penn remain before this final test of the season...
...continued in time-tested fashion: they met a "beautiful Chinese girl" in a Hong Kong restaurant, and she begged them to undertake an "errand of mercy" to save the boy, who was being held as a hostage by the Chinese Communists. The two men took a four-hour boat ride across the Pearl