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Word: ridings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Arnie Armour, the hot dog mascot, had a wholly different problem, however. He couldn't ride in the parade because the constraints of his costume--an upright frank--made it impossible for him to mount an elephant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: It's a Jungle Out There On Cambridge's Streets | 10/16/1985 | See Source »

Across the country, meanwhile, a firm called Railfone will install telephones on Amtrak's Metroliner express between Washington and New York City in January. Anticipated charge for all calls: $4.75 for the first three minutes and $1 a minute thereafter. Amtrak expects the busy executives who ride the train to turn the service into a moneymaker quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telephones: Connections for Commuters | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

HARVARD 6, CORNELL 0: The Crimson hasn't won on artificial turf in four years. And the eight-hour bus ride won't help, either. So it won't be 77-0, but it'll still be a shutout...

Author: By Bob Cunha, | Title: No More Cakewalks for Gridders | 10/12/1985 | See Source »

Everything about the show was premeditated--and therefore safe. From the in-the-dark opening of "Ride Across The River" to the detonating of a mushroom cloud in the second-to-last number, "Brothers In Arms," Knopfler could do no wrong. All he had to do was slouch there, look cool, play the same solos as on the albums, mumble the lyrics and let 10,000 rock pilgrims...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: Dire Predictions | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...Thrashin'," co-producer Thomas Dolby injects an effete strain by leading Clinton & Co. on a ride in a "space limousine." With lines like, "Thrashin', mashin'/Cashin' in on the groove. . . . /Take no prisoners/Show no mercy," Parliament's old leader and his Anglo sidekick make no bones about their beefs. As the title track says, our potential for good times is being suffocated within our materialist, conservative regime. Just "like we split a pair of genes/We split the whole world at the seams...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

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