Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MINUTES LATER, IT happened. There was a sudden jolt and the shrill screech of breaking wheels amid screams and falling luggage. One encountered what can only be described as a violent roller coaster ride with intense vibration and heavy rumbling as metal grated on gravel...
...sighed with relief following the train's stop. By pushing myself away from the seat in front of me, I had kept myself free of injury during the brief and rugged ride. My fear of death subsided...
...Limousines pick up committee members at the airport. Sirens wailing, police motorcades escort them from location to location, local traffic be jammed. Sometimes the visit turns into a kind of Main Street Club Med: giddy committee members rode a riverboat up the Potomac, sipped champagne on an antique-locomotive ride to the Truman Library in Independence, Mo., and donned balloon hats and leis to feast on pork and lobster at a Texas luau...
Atlanta, Houston and New Orleans probably have an inside track because the party would like to renew its old ties with the South. Atlanta pitched itself as the birthplace of the "New South," mixing a ride on the city's modern subway with mint juleps, barbecue and country music in an antebellum mansion at Stone Mountain. Atlanta turned Native Son Jimmy Carter, not the most popular figure in the Democratic Party, into an asset. The highlight of the trip turned out to be a VIP tour of the Carter Presidential Center, after which the former President treated the committee...
...married. During his campaign for mayor of Concepcion, I was very shy. When I felt that people were looking at me, I just wanted to hide. So my husband really forced me to come out in public. I would have done anything but that. I had to ride in a carabao ((water buffalo)) cart so that people could say, "Look, Ninoy's wife may have studied in New York and she may come from a wealthy family, but she can ride in a carabao cart." This was not my idea. We walked in the rice fields, and once...