Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...leaving the cemetery, the afternoon thundershower broke. For some strange reason, nobody replaced the canopy on his car, so the President, Harrington and Dulles got thoroughly soaked on the last three minutes of the ride back to the residence...
...Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, kindly Mathematician Lowell Reed came out of retirement at 67 to serve only until the university could find a younger man. Besides its prestige, Johns Hopkins had a special attraction for Dwight Eisenhower's brother: Baltimore is only a 45-minute train ride from Washington. "I shall come," said Milton Eisenhower to his new trustees, "with enthusiasm...
...middle of the 17th century. The present-day horn is a 4.54 meter-long conical brass tube wound three times around and flaring from the mouthpiece to a fat bell. Pitched to the key of C, the horn sounds a plaintive, husky call which on good days may ride the wind for a mile or more...
...week President Eisenhower urged Congress to take off on the crash program by adding $68 million to the $40 million already appropriated to CAA for fiscal 1957. The extra money would buy more radar, a better ground-to-air communications net, another 80 omnidirectional radio ranges for planes to ride and more trained CAA ground controllers...
...company estimates that Pioneer's maintenance costs will be less than 60% of the upkeep for a standard 80-passenger, 65-ton car. One reason: it can be washed inside and out with a fire hose. Budd has run the car 5,000 miles in tests, will ride it 45,000 more before taking orders...