Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trade racing quarter horses at bush tracks. She wears no makeup and keeps her hair close-cropped because "I'm working in a man's world and I don't want anybody doing me favors because I'm a girl. I know I can ride as good as most men, and I intend to prove...
...jockeys' tender egos weren't bruised enough already, Barbara Jo has another little feminine squelcher up her silken sleeve. Come May 3, she plans to ride Picnic Fare at Churchill Downs-thus becoming the first girl jockey to ride in the Kentucky Derby...
Option to Ride Out. While Laird found it "most encouraging to see a national debate" growing on ABM, he did not budge under attack. Tennessee's Senator Albert Gore told Laird that deploying ABMs "would make armaments-limitation agreement more difficult, if not impossible, to attain, and thus ultimately could degrade our deterrence." Laird replied soothingly that he would like nothing better than to see his job done away with by disarmament. Gore described the ABM scornfully as "a defense in search of a mission," noting that the system had been switched from defending cities to protecting missile sites...
...launch ICBMs at an attacker's territory as rapidly as it could fire ABMs at incoming missiles? Laird passed the question to Dr. John Foster, the Pentagon's research and engineering chief, who replied that he would much rather the U.S. had an option to "ride out" an attack before it had to commit its missiles to irrevocable retaliation. That was one of the few fresh points made on either side...
THIS LADY needs to get off the ground. She should take a ride on the Ferris wheel. She won't, though: it is far away behind a fence and she would have to struggle through the crowd and they would all stare at her. She might not even know it's there...