Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...join his father, the head of the famous Flying Wallendas troupe. Two other members of the troupe were killed in the accident, but Mario has kept his nerve. "I am a circus man," he said, "and I want to get back into it even if I have to ride the high wire on my wheelchair. And don't think I couldn...
Like other shipbuilders, the Swedes are not happy with their current earnings, and many of the contracts they are taking on now will show them no real gains. But from the hard lessons they are learning in the lean years, they will be ready to ride the next big wave of world shipbuilding to solid profits. In the meantime, says Götaverken's Managing Director Hilding Nielsen: "We have to build big if we are to survive...
Harvard is also fond of the "outside belly" or "ride" series, perfected at Oklahoma by Bud Wilkenson. The key man in the series is the quarterback, and Bassett excells in this type of work. In the play, when run from the basic-T, the fullback and the right half-back both plunge toward the tackle. The left half-back runs wide to the right and parallel to the line of scrimmage. The quarterback takes the snap and thrusts the ball into the belly of the fullback (giving the series its name). He has the option of letting the fullback keep...
...space program raises its horizons,new and younger men are needed to perform the difficult tasks that deeper space exploration demands. Last week in Houston the National Aeronautics and Space Administration unveiled its second batch of astronauts-nine young spacemen on whose shoulders will ride much of the success of the U.S. race to the moon...
...from 1958 on did not sell much beer. Now, with Piel's fighting to hold its place as the fourth-selling beer in New York,* Bert and Harry Piel's spiel may be a little hard er. As Bert will say after the election: "The free ride is over. All hitchhikers off. This time we have a new theme: 'I'm laughing with Piel's in my hand...