Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There remains the possibility that he could ride back to great influence on a wave of popular discontent, if the cold war turns hot again and the United States becomes involved in new difficulties in Asia. In his protest against the present course of American foreign policy, McCarthy has announced: "I shall go to the people" to warn them against the dangers of an accommodation with communism. "I may be too late, but insofar as my abilities and endurance permit," he promises, "I shall see to it that this country does not die without the people of this country being...
...community to submit to their demands-in fact, swallow them all." (The Negroes demand seating in buses on a first come, first seated basis, with whites seating from the front backward, Negroes from the back forward.) Mayor Gayle was specially vexed about the white families who give car rides to their Negro help, or pay their taxi fare. He said that the cooks and maids who boycott the buses "are fighting to destroy our social fabric just as much as the Negro radicals who are leading them. The Negroes are laughing at white people behind their backs . . . They think...
...other side of the river, and three Aucas appeared. Two women and one man waved to us from the opposite riverbank . . . and thus occurred the contact for which we had prayed to God." The three Aucas went over to the camp, and the man even took a short plane ride. Wrote Saint: "We have a friendlier feeling for these fellows all the time...
...town relax. Saddened by Lehigh's team loss, 17-13, John Pappajohn, 59, a local shoemaker and undisputed dean of Bethlehem wrestling buffs, took his consolation from Ike's victory. "He wrestle Turkish method," said grey-mustachioed Pappajohn, remembering his own youth in Turkey. "That cross body ride, that is Turkish method...
...lamb of The Lamb is 22-year-old Xavier Dartigelongue, a would-be seminary student. Like Dostoevsky's "idiot" Prince Myshkin, Xavier is a fool in Christ, a saint somehow leading himself to destruction. Xavier feels himself spiritually handcuffed to any human soul in need. On the train ride to the seminary, the handcuffs click when haughty Jean de Mirbel enters Xavier's compartment and reveals that he means to desert his wife...