Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ride from the airport to Ike's Beverly Hills hotel, Goodie Knight, who is not running for anything this year, rode in the open convertible with the President and waved to the bystanders. Kuchel rode in a closed car behind. Later, a little wistfully, Kuchel said: "I was terribly pleased today. Coming from the airport, I heard some people shout my name...
...newspaper which seldom earns such international attention. A Pictorial reporter had been given a lift in a limousine into The Hague, and had thereby "become the confidant of a man closer to the Queen than almost anyone else." According to the reporter, the man who gave him the ride told of a plot, designed with the connivance of Prince' Bernhard's 72-year-old German mother, Princess Armgard, to force Queen Juliana off the throne. "Lies about the Queen's private life," said the man, "are being spread in a deliberate and nasty way with...
...Chrysler's 1957 line, every car is new from grille to tailfins, is lower and sportier-looking. To go with the design changes, Chrysler has bigger engines, a new "Torque-Flite" automatic transmission with three speeds instead of two, a new "Torsion-Aire" suspension system for a smoother ride and better cornering...
...group agreed to give up on such men of ill will as would not pay Council pledges and passed to another topic, that of a ride bureau. This bureau answers phone calls and helps people get rides and riders for trips. It sounded like a good thing. The problem was to get someone to answer the phone...
...problem the Tories under Anthony Eden have not solved is how to give voters a clear distinction between Conservative and Labor policies. "We must emphasize expansion rather than restriction," Butler said. "We have to surf-ride on the industrial revolution, developing nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, speeding the intelligent introduction of automation and extending facilities for technical and scientific training." Openly challenging the might of Britain's trade-union movement, he said: "We should use the authority of the state not to control and harry the individual but to curb the power of states which arise within the state...