Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young hoods accosted Mrs. Kindermann - who was 5½ months pregnant - as she stood on the school steps waiting for her ride home. When they got no reaction to random obscenities and a pat on her back, one grabbed her purse, running with it to the opposite side of the street where Primitivo and the others were gathered. Mrs. Kindermann followed. With so many ordinary respectable people around, she could not believe that she was in danger. But the caper had just begun...
...speeding things up, no longer may a pitcher stand out there shaking off catcher's sign after sign while tension mounts; no longer will a reliever trudge in from the faraway bullpen like a matador with his warmup jacket slung over his pitching arm (he will now ride in a golf cart); no longer will a batter try to rattle the pitcher by demanding that the umpire examine the ball. What's left to relieve the boredom? The seventh-inning stretch...
...MOON PONY by Charlotte Pomerantz, illustrated by Loretta Trezzo (Young Scott Books; $3.95). One of the best of an increasing number of picture books that depart from the usual white, middle-class background. This one is about a Negro child's dream of a ride to the moon on a white pony. It preserves the delicate balance between the real world and the imaginary...
...billion a year, the nation has run into dollar-threatening balance of payments trouble only because of foreign aid, overseas investment and the Viet Nam war. Despite all the speculation, maintained Chairman Alfred Schaefer of the Union Bank of Switzerland last week, "the dollar is strong enough to ride it out-provided that it is well defended...
...hitched a ride in Yugoslavia this summer with a mathematics professor at the University of Split. Even though he disagreed with some of his country's political policies, he loved Yugoslavia, and was resigned to living in a country where he was not always free to do what he wanted. "But I have math," he said as a smile broke over his face. "You can escape the evils of world politics in math...