Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...After a long, hard-fought campaign by a number of groups dedicated to easing the lot of the handicapped, ramps have been built that allow the wheelchair-bound to roll themselves into the base of the memorial, where they can enter the wide doorway of a newly installed elevator, ride up to the rotunda and get a closeup view of Lincoln's statue. That enables the handicapped to surmount what had been for them a barrier to the rotunda, the great apron of stairs that lead to the memorial...
...countries, casting a ballot in the June 20-21 election is no simple matter. Since Italy makes no provision for absentee balloting, the worker must travel home, forfeit up to seven days of pay or vacation, spend about $80 on rail fare, and endure at least two days' riding each way on jampacked trains that provide standing room only. Yet more than 300,000 Italian workers traveled home for the country's 1972 general elections, and the ride-in vote is expected to be even larger this year...
...piece called XRay, written for The New Yorker in 1930. By that time Lardner's health was failing. He was drinking heavily, though still writing lightly. At the end the author is being carted to a hospital, his Lardner tone still unmistakable: "In an ambulance they made you ride lying down, whereas you can take your choice in a taxi...
...years. Only tiny, easily negotiable slivers of territory in the Sinai and to a lesser extent along the Golan Heights have changed hands. The Geneva Conference remains stalled, and Washington has still not addressed itself to the region's central problem, the Palestinian issue. By trying to ride two camels at the same time, as it were, the U.S. risks the prospect of falling between them. If a new war breaks out, for instance, both Israel and Egypt may demand arms airlifts...
...next attraction is a brisk trip to Park Street followed by a roller coaster ride on the green line trolley to Kenmore...