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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...warm air of southern Georgia, a pair of English setters dubbed Art and George stretched their legs after a ride down from Gettysburg, Pa., and sniffed curiously at the Southland smells. In Washington, clearing his desk in anticipation of two weeks of quail hunting, golf and bridge, the setters' master sniffed now and again in anticipation of a vacation in the same Southland. But whenever Dwight Eisenhower wandered, he was quickly pulled back from Georgia to global strategies. For the mood of Washington last week was wrapped around world affairs. At Ike's press conference, correspondents, subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The World & Georgia | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...coincidence a paddy-wagon mate on the ride to Federal Detention Headquarters was Ukrainian-born Irving Potash, 55, one of the eleven top Reds convicted under the Smith Act in 1949 of conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government. Deported by his own choice last year after serving 41 months of a five-year sentence, Potash mysteriously re-entered the U.S. (he refused to say how). Arrested in January, he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for illegal entry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: A Strand in the Web | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...telling what a pretty girl may be offered after the dessert. There she meets Robert Stack, an oil millionaire who quickly establishes the fact that he is a rich Texan by debonairly putting out his cigarette in a glass of champagne. Texan Stack asks Lauren to go for a ride before going back to the office. She accepts. Some hours later, the ride ends in Miami, where the Texan's two-motor transport lands. He phones ahead to a local inn, and, lo, Lauren is led a few minutes later to a sumptuous suite where vases are filled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

...soon as Jerkens turned 21, he got his trainer's license. He managed to ride out bad years by practicing what his father had preached: he worked over each horse as carefully as if it were the only one in his string. He went on claiming second-rate nags and turning them into winners with such consistent success that other trainers joked that he must be using some magical "Jerkens Lotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Magic Lotion | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...spur lines that no longer are really needed often have to run through months or years of hearings. The Chesapeake & Ohio, for example, consistently failed to get permission to discontinue a train that averaged only a handful of passengers daily. Finally the principal objector admitted that he did not ride the train himself; he just liked to set his watch by the train's noon whistle. Regulatory agencies know that every road has similar lines that should be eliminated so that the money saved could be used to improve service elsewhere. But they are reluctant to pare the costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: THE NEW AGE OF RAILROADS | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

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