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...were tough and slovenly--and we studied Greek: Studs Lonigan with brains. We did three hours of homework a night and drank too much beer on weekends. We hitchhiked or rode the streetcar and bus to North Capitol and Eye streets, to a neighborhood called Swampoodle. Gonzaga was a proud but touchy school in a squalid neighborhood, with a whorehouse across the street (a source of some entertainment in Latin class, when we would translate Virgil and through the window covertly watch the women emerge to stretch and take the morning sun on their stoop...
...would, then he said he would and I started to get excited, then John McLauglin said that he wouldn't be surprised if Lamar was the one, and then I got it in the realm of realness, and volunteered.... I stuffed some envelopes, went around some neighborhoods, I rode my bike around my neighborhood and dropped off some brochures. The other thing about him that I like is that he wants to push local control, and in New Hampshire we've certainly learned that that's the way to get rid of as much waste as possible. Because...
...side window and wave. Forbes, who wouldn't know a photo op even in a hail of popping flashbulbs, nudged his head out like a turtle afraid to emerge from its shell. He smiled bashfully, and a local reporter called out, "When was the last time you rode a bus?" Forbes grimaced, pulled his head back in and muttered, "I've ridden buses all my life...
...Austin. Yarborough was known both for his flamboyant oratory and for his 1963 feud with Texas Governor John Connally. Many believe that smoothing over the rift was part of the reason for John Kennedy's visit to Dallas that year. In the well-known motorcade, Yarborough rode two cars behind the President and Connally...
Once, not so long ago, schussers and shredders were the Hatfields and McCoys, the sheepherders and cattle ranchers, of the slopes. Separated by age, fashion, etiquette, lingo and per capita income, the skier and the snowboarder rode up the mountain together in chilly silence...