Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...initial task is to pin the failures of the administration directly on Eisenhower." By doing this, Lyons felt that Stevenson would have the best chance of winning back the Democrats who voted Republican in 1952. "The Republicans," he said, "will just claim Peace and Prosperity and try to ride on Ike's coattails again...
...insultingly rejected, and Washington waited. There is strength in this case, and Dulles' biggest gamble may yet pay off. The West must not forget that it is not playing with a dictator of the South American variety. Nasser is a man who has the astounding and frightening ability to ride all the forces which are loose in the area: Nasser has fought colonialism, he has fought Israel, and he has fought the old regime. More than anyone else, Nasser has come to symbolize--both to the West and to his own people--adolescent nationalism itself. He may be irresponsible...
...Loving Sunsets." "I remember as a boy loving sunsets," said J.D.R. Jr. one day. "Every time I ride through the woods today the smell of the trees-particularly when a branch has just been cut and the sap is running-takes me back to my early impressions." Today the lives of few of his countrymen have not been touched by J.D.R. Jr.'s gifts of land to the nation: Atlantic rollers loudly crashing and spuming on the rock-girt coasts of Acadia National Park in Maine; the rhododendrons of the Great Smokies, redolent and languid in the haze; Jackson...
Wherever he rode-and he rode all over the world-Johnny earned a reputation as an honest jock who always gave his horse a good ride. He was up on Count Fleet when that great runner took the Kentucky Derby in 1943; he was piloting Noor when that Irish-bred fighter got his nose in front of Citation to win the San Juan Capistrano Handicap. Today he owns a modest California mansion- modest, that is, for a millionaire jockey-for a time he had a 500-acre Nevada ranch and he followed the ponies around the circuit...
...contrast to the precarious ride of the other boats, Miss Pepsi displaces water like a Sunday speedboat, is kicked along by two 1,500-h.p. Allison aircraft engines, and throws a rough wake that is awesome indeed. "Riding behind her," says one driver, "is like a trip behind the Queen Mary." To make matters worse, Miss Pepsi's driver, Chuck Thompson, has the quaint habit of taking her for a spin ten minutes before the starting gun, a tactic that is sure to roil the course...