Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...continues to ride quiet herd on legislatures that are yet to enact petitions. One of his aides has been visiting state capitals. State representatives have even received personal phone calls from the gravel-voiced Senator. During a recent debate over the petition in the Delaware legislature, Senate Majority Leader Frank Grier suddenly found himself called to the telephone. It was Dirksen, a total stranger. He told the startled legislator to "bear down" and get the votes necessary for passage...
Accordingly, any fool can plainly see that the U.S. trunk and regional carriers are dangerous to ride and that the commuter and taxi services are safe to ride...
...going 20 m.p.h. There is no tangible evidence to dispute his figure, and there were no skid marks to indicate that Kennedy had braked the car or had even been aware that he was in danger. It is known, however, that some members of Kennedy's entourage refuse to ride with him because he is such a daredevil driver, and Kennedy incurred four traffic convictions in the '50s, two for speeding and two for reckless driving...
...paranoic"; at 24, he escaped the Army when his draft board found him too unstable for military service. His vanilla screen-acting style was best expressed in such films as Tammy and the Doctor. Offscreen, Fonda began a new vocation-as an alcoholic who ended at least one motorcycle ride in a Hollywood hospital. When he was discharged, he gave up vodka and took up marijuana. "That changed my whole mind," recalls Fonda. "My conscience began to show. I was no longer competitive. I grew my hair and sometimes a beard." Getting busted for possessing pot simply confirmed...
When he told the high school girls "I want one of you to ask us if you can go for a ride on our bikes," the girls were way ahead of him. "Don't tell us any more," said one. "We know how to flirt." The drugstore loafers needed no instructions in hostility. "Are you a Commie? You on welfare? You got V.D.? Or hepatitis?" The questions followed the movie makers as they filmed onlookers from Arizona to Baton Rouge. On film, they retain the sting of spontaneity and conviction. The only query that could have hurt...