Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another Dog's Bone. Bobby Kennedy's entry had McCarthy supporters furious. Growled Actor Newman: "It's a shame Kennedy chose to take a free ride on McCarthy's back." Bobby was called a "claim jumper" and a "cow-bird." Said a student: "Hawks are bad enough. We don't need chickens." Commented New Hampshire Attorney Eugene S. Daniell Jr.: "It is something like trying to steal another dog's bone." Pulitzer-prizewinning Historian Barbara Tuchman (The Guns of August), whose daughter Jessica worked for McCarthy, fired off a telegram accusing Bobby of "cynicism...
...rowing on the Thames," Swayze recalled. "Harvey had some problems coaching us, though; he had to ride a bicycle along the crowded towpath on the riverside. The team's only problem was the Thames' queen swans and British officials who usually put us on edge with their picayunish observances of lining-up procedures...
Park likes to think of his players as brothers. "I'll ride on them," he said, "but no one else will." He never criticizes a player publically...
...really much more than an economist. He is a critic of the purposes and direction of human life. Economics is only the vehicle that man makes to carry him through the world of nature. Which is more important: the fashioning of the vehicle or the enjoyment of the ride...
...good girl and see that I get invited to all the meetings in the White House." She observes that he wasn't, noting that in addition to her normal duties, one major task was to keep explaining to L.B.J. that, for security reasons, he could not ride in Kennedy's plane...