Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roller coasters--I would ride the park's lesser ones first. The name of the tiniest one should have been enough to turn me away. "Willard's Whizzer" whirled like the spin-dry cycle of a washing machine, and anything that goes in circles makes me sick. I rode it anyway...
Penn head coach Jerry Berndt rode the arm of Gary Vura and the hands of Karl Hall to a 29-22 victory over Cornell in his debut as Quaker coach...
...horses to the New World in the 1500s considered livestock tending beneath their dignity. However, the powerful padres of the Mexican mission system found the first cowboys in their congregations: Indians and Negroes. Barefoot and illiterate, these early vaqueros were often not allowed even to own the horses they rode. North of the border, cowboys were hardly better off; slaves riding mules sometimes tended Louisiana herds. In California, though Franciscans taught Indians to herd steers from the saddle, their problem was that the braves favored the taste of horseflesh over beef. Many sermons were no doubt devoted...
Still, the police took no chances. Not only did they comb St. Paul's daily for bombs but, the night before the wedding, prowled miles of sewer system under the city looking for explosive devices. For extra precautions on the big day, the Queen's Household Cavalry rode an unusually tight formation around her coach. Her personal police officer, Commander Michael Trestrail, sat near Charles in the cathedral, dressed appropriately in morning clothes, and the bride and bridegroom had a detective disguised as a footman riding their coach (not to mention the 400 plainclothesmen mingling with the onlookers...
...click, and as soon as Gielgud is dispatched, Moore is back in the bottle again, right up until the decidely happy ending. The saved-by-the-bell wedding ending recalls The Graduate, except this is unequivocably happy. The Graduate rejected the Establishment, Arthur embraces it. Ban and Elaine rode off in a public bus, Arthur and Linda scoot off in a chauffeur-driven Rolls, gleefully content with their $700 million nest...