Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like just about everything Bates has written, The Sleepless Moon is well carpentered, easily written, and well calculated to shorten a train ride or add pleasure to a tall drink. In a small English town, Constance is married to the town grocer, a man so respectable, correct and dull that passion has no chance. His comfortable household runs like a metronome, but his bed has a built-in deepfreeze. Not only does the virginal Constance wait in vain on her wedding night, she waits in vain, period...
...Cedarburg, Wis., Escaped Convict Blondon P. Becktell, one of the state's "most-wanted" men, grandly offered $5 to anybody in the tavern who would drive him to Milwaukee, found a taker in Ozaukee County Sheriff Edmund J. Bienlein, unwittingly climbed into the squad car for a ride back to prison...
...Coach Harry Cleverly said, "I picked Harvard for first and us for third but I think this game will be our big one. We have a young team and our hopes will ride with Macleod." Cleverly will start Bill Formosi behind the plate, Nat Koppel at first, Jackie Murphy at second, Ed Aseley at third, and Don Cobleigh at short. Lon Dempsey, football captain Ken Hagerstrom, and John Sarno will play in the outfield...
Against Rutgers, it was a different death. The Crimson went for a 19-9 ride and Munro admitted, "we couldn't have won if we'd had ten-years of practice...
...calls "the pearl of Asia." From it's high hills visitors can look north across the border to the barren red hills of Communist China; they can spend an evening at the stylized Chinese opera, tramp up and down narrow "ladder" streets and take a 40-mile boat ride down the coast to Portuguese Macao, which will give Americans their best look at China...