Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frenetic television industry would make a book too. It was gathered by a dozen reporters and researchers-all of whom were so busy that some interviews were literally conducted on the run. Best break came when NBC's hyperbolic President Pat Weaver invited Correspondent Don Connery to ride home with him to Sands Point, L.I. On the way, Weaver's rented Cadillac blew a tire; in trying to change it, the chauffeur broke his jack. Weaver telephoned for another rented Cadillac, which took them to Sands Point, where Weaver, talking volubly and incessantly, showed Connery his telescope...
...this is no foe to take lightly; last year's win was difficult to get and Trinity had a good freshman squad and should be improved now. Besides the Crimson must travel to the game by bus and may be stiff and tired from the 100-mile ride...
...education, a combination which, while he was still in his 30s, had drawn him to the attention of England's brand-new young Norman King, Henry II. Redhaired, red-tempered Harry made Becket his Chancellor. Towering Thomas a Becket impressed the King with his courage (he would ride to war at the head of his own troop of knights) and skillfully helped Henry rule his vast realm. But to keep the King's peace, Becket had to keep peace with the King. Monarch and merchant's son became friends. Hawking in the marshes of Essex or carousing...
...world brought Author Edson McCann (pseudonym for "a government scientist") a $6,500 contest prize as 1955's best science-fiction story. But, with its minimum of electronic gadgetry and with no space excursions at all, Preferred Risk stays close to the ground and takes a jitney ride along the broad highway charted by George Orwell six years ago in 1984. Author McCann, throwing politics away as excess baggage, just zips along, fast, wry, and sometimes ingenious...
...Rehna ("Tiny"), Author Cloete set out from Cape Town and headed directly for the "biggest hole in the world"-Kimberly's fabulous diamond mine (one mile around and 1,335 feet deep). There, where the sons of savages mine the raw material of American engagement rings, they also ride bicycles, wear European clothes, dance to the throb of tom-toms and throw their unwanted children into the giant hole...