Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were all set to put out the welcome mat for the touring Kremlin leaders last week, but no one knew what to say on it. The satirical weekly Eulenspiegel (circ. 400,000) went to press too far in advance with a cartoon of B. and K. arriving in tubby tandem. East Berlin diplomats received handsome engraved invitations to a reception honoring B. and K. For 24 hours after Moscow's last-minute announcement that Premier Bulganin would not be a member of the party, one long red banner strung across an East Berlin building said simply: WE GREET...
...home to his mother, who frowned on dancing. He began calling upon a Providence belle named Abby Aldrich, daughter of Rhode Island's powerful, wealthy senior U.S. Senator, Nelson Aldrich, at her home at 110 Benevolent Street. He took Abby to college dances and football games, out on tandem rides and canoeing trips down Ten Mile River. ("She was so gay and young and so in love with everything.") Week by week the entries piled up in the ledger: "Flowers, Abby...
Last week, as the monsoon bore in on Patiala with its drenching rains, the evacuated princes pooled their meager resources and sent four of their brothers roaring off in tandem on two motorcycles to seek help from the national government in New Delhi. "This," proclaimed young Prince Bobby Singh, "is a test of democracy! If the Maharajah can treat royalty like this, what hope can there be for the masses...
...these entrants ride touring bikes, while three sets will go tandem. The rest have been discussing gear ratios avidly for the past week...
Hurrah for out tandem! Good old Ralph...