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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS! The green flyer on the campus bulletin board promises the greatest little cross-country bus "ride ever. There's no bus terminal, though. To get a reservation you have to shove $10 and a return address under the front door of an anonymous San Francisco connection. Even then, just where or when to find the bus remains a mystery. A note in the mail a few days later tells you to turn up, with a sleeping bag, at an intersection in the Haight-Ashbury district by sundown Wednesday. Says a friend: "You might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hippie Bus from Coast to Coast | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...head. To open the show, Teng and Foreign Minister Huang rode twice around the arena in a stagecoach drawn by two horses. The Vice Premier waved happily to the crowd and returned to his seat to watch cowgirls race their horses around barrels and cowboys rope calves and ride bucking broncos and bulls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teng's Triumphant Tour | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

...weak link in Harvard's effort at the carnivals, where a complex scoring system can badly hinder a college without accomplished skiers in all of the events. Rand was the only jumper on the squad last season, but he has recruited Matt Strominger and alpiner Ned Childs to ride the jumping boards this year. Neither has ever jumped in competition before and may not compete this weekend because of the size of the UVM jump...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Crimson Skiers Start Season This Weekend As UVM Hosts First of February Carnivals | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

Their firms, long considered upstart midtown outfits, were located in anonymous high-rise office buildings a $6 cab ride from the tonier downtown Wall Street firms. These firms disdained takeover work because of its past association with hungry and raffish conglomerateurs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Those Guns for Hire | 1/29/1979 | See Source »

...Gacy once picked him up in a place called Bughouse Square, and Jaime barely escaped with his life. After such homosexual encounters, the paper reported, Gacy would head uptown to a favored working-class bar called The Good Luck Lounge, where he would drink with his buddies and sometimes ride around taunting gays...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: My Kind of Town | 1/9/1979 | See Source »

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