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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last stop on the "Mystery Train." I, for one, will ride it the rest of my life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 19, 1977 | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

Three years of development have enabled Olds engineers to solve some other problems. A passenger who did not happen to notice the word diesel on the hood ornament or the rear of the car probably could not tell, from quietness or smoothness of ride, that he was traveling in an unconventional auto. Yet some difficulties remain. The most serious is getting the engine to start on a cold morning. Since the whole principle of diesel ignition is to raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit's Diesel | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...show. Up against The Waltons and the Osmonds, CHiPS may not last out the month. Erik Estrada stars as a motorcycle cop named Poncherello ("Ponch" to friends) who bears an all too obvious resemblance to both Baretta and the Fonz. For an hour, he and his partner (Larry Wilcox) ride the Los Angeles freeways arresting or aiding motorists. Occasionally they take a break to bicker with their strident commanding sergeant (Robert Pine) or flirt with pretty girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Viewpoint: Lou, Carter, CHiPS | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...long-term hotel guests will have the option of taking three dinners a week at Harvard's Harkness Commons, the Law School dining facility, rather than ride the shuttle bus provided by Tufts back to the Tufts campus on the Medford-Somerville city line for meals...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Area Colleges Overflow Hotels, Apartment Houses | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

...pick of colleges. He had a free ride wherever he wanted...

Author: By David Dalquist, | Title: Bound By the Ivy | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

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