Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time Art has beaten Life to the pages of Newsweek; remember The China Syndrome and Three Mile Island. And it won't be the last. In the years prior to this week's tragedy, NASA had been straining its PR muscles, turning a rocket-powered bronco ride into what had begun to seem like a drive in the country. There had been so many shuttle flights flashing across our skies and our screens; they had become the norm, not the extraordinary exception...
Haitians said the portly, 34-year-old president took his ride through the streets at about...
...technological manhood exploded in a terminal affront to complacent expectations. And so, to ease the shock, we grieved over the loss of seven new heroes. Their sudden demise, and most of all the dramatic irony of the nation's first civilian space passenger just going along for a routine ride, triggered mass catharsis...
Hopefully, the end of renovations will not mean the end of the five large speed bumps along the driveway out of the Quad Alley. Oh, sure, driving a low-riding car over them can be killers on your axles, not to mention your muffler. But they slow down the shuttle so you can catch up to it if you miss its departure, and the bumps make an otherwise-dull bicycle ride a fun-filled adventure...
...stupid, unconstitutional and has very little safety in it--you don't see me wearing one," said John R. Bielakowski, a local taxicab driver. He added that most of his passengers never wear a seat belt because the ride is often too short to warrant...