Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Young cavalry officers training at Fort Riley in the '30s spent eight hours in the saddle most days, riding punishing cross-country courses, practicing dressage, riding tight figure-eight patterns while emptying their .45 pistols at targets. They were up at 5:30 a.m., often with pounding heads. "We were bachelors, and we did a lot of drinking," says Polk, "but with all the riding, we were healthy." Another old Riley hand, Major General Lawrence ("Bud") Schlanser, arrived at the post as a second lieutenant and married Jill Rodney, daughter of Colonel Dorcey Read Rodney, the commandant, "a little bandy...
...freshman. The Amtrak would leave South Station for New Haven at six in the morning. I was going to catch it and sleep on the ride down...
...stuck in a patch of mud on the far end of the hundredth field I had traversed that day. On the ride back to Cambridge, I kept seeing flashes of The Game. Tiny dots of blue and crimson moving on a field of green. The blue dots were just better that day. Then I thought about the girl at B.U. and the goldfish...
...fare for the 20-minute ride is just under $10 but involves counting out 80 1,000-cordoba notes. The government's measures to cope with inflation include printing three additional zeros on its 20-cordoba bills in order to provide a denomination of some practical use. There are so many exchange rates that a visitor sometimes feels trapped in a hall of mirrors. For external debt, the rate is 70 cordobas to the dollar. The official rate for visitors is 9,500 cordobas to the dollar, while the flourishing black-market rate is up to , 18,000. A briefcase...
...Central American Xanadu, 40 miles south of the Nicaraguan border. The 1,500-acre ranch where he raises cattle and grows oranges is the centerpiece of six properties he owns or manages. Once a week the modern-day feudal baron and his Costa Rican wife Margarita ride out on horseback to check on the 100 workers in their employ. El Patron also enjoys climbing into his blue-and-white Cessna and taking off from one of his half-a-dozen or more airstrips to survey his fiefdom from a God's-eye view...