Word: ridings
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Curiously, all of these open seats seem as attractive to potential candidates as tickets for a ride on the ill-fated great ship. In an article in the March 15 New York Times, Richard Berke documents the difficulties both parties are having attracting quality candidates. Despite personal pleas from the President and Speaker of the House and promises of money from Washington, Republicans and Democrats from across the country are choosing to pass up the chance to serve...
Michael Haille said that bikers are trained to ride with traffic, and the redesign, which would serve to move heavy traffic closer to the middle of the road rather than the sidewalks...
...Mitch the instigator of the shootings at Westside Middle School, as Drew's grandfather has cast him? Gretchen Woodard has another version. She told TIME her son says it was Drew who proposed an attack last month. Mitch had said no, Woodard says, but then on the bus ride home from school the afternoon before the fatal assault, Drew approached Mitch again. "Mitch told me he never meant to hurt anybody and he didn't take specific aim," says Woodard. "He just meant to scare 'em, I guess. But then something went terribly wrong." She learned of the shooting from...
Well, what else did I have in mind for my twilight years? Not that much. A writer turns 55, the old double nickel, and the slender thread of inspiration has unraveled and you clomp around in circles like an old pony at the pony ride and beautiful women come up and tell you how much their mothers liked something you did in 1975. Your prose style turns flabby. Your work has the shelf life of tropical fish. Compared to that, fathering a baby is sheer nobility, a shot at immortality...
...have, myself, full confidence that if all do their duty, if nothing is neglected...we shall prove ourselves once again able to defend our island home, to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary for years, if necessary alone...The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil, aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength. Even though large tracts of Europe...have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo...