Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legalized after the September revolution, from around 30 to a current of 36. Thus traded, a dollar will buy such bargains as a platter-size steak with a bottle of wine, or five pints of good Cordoba beer, or admission to seven first-run movies or a ten-mile ride in a taxi. A rent of $300 a month gets a country house with a swimming pool and big garden...
...Elephant Ride. All around them, saffron-robed Brahman priests bustled hither and thither, frequently consulting notebooks to get the complex ritual straight. An occasional argument in stage whispers broke out and was quickly hushed. After the royal couple mounted the throne-at exactly the auspicious moment of 10:43 a-m-the nead Priest, moving carefully so as not to knock off the young King's glasses, placed upon the monarch's head a peaked helmet adorned with bird-of-paradise feathers* and some $2,000,000 worth of precious gems...
Like Shane and Hondo, Jubal is just one of those ordinary cowboys who can shoot like Buffalo Bill, ride like the Lone Ranger and smile like Roy Rogers. And, like every other cowboy (except Roy Rogers), Jubal has had an unhappy family life--Mama Jubal hated him intensely and Papa Jubal was sliced to pieces by a steamboat...
School of Experience. In North Bergen, N.J., Hudson County Detective Dominick Meatto took three rookie cops for a training ride, said, "Now this is how you stop a car and search it," flagged down a passing auto, promptly arrested Driver Willie Smith when he found a loaded, unlicensed .45 in his glove compartment...
...these entrants ride touring bikes, while three sets will go tandem. The rest have been discussing gear ratios avidly for the past week...