Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Free Boat Ride. In the harbor meanwhile, the loading booms creaked and strained from dock to deck, and LCVPs (Landing Craft-"Vehicle, Personnel) churned busily from the beach out to an armada of U.S. Navy ships waiting to take out the troops. The South Korean navy sent one LST in to the beach to pick up several thousand R.O.K. troops, nurses and South Korean civilians. The Koreans wasted no time getting aboard. When they finally stopped getting aboard, the LST was crammed to the gunwales with over 4,000 passengers, including a fair share of the remaining civilian population...
Retreat is contagious. Already some Korean civilians were leaving Seoul for the south, and the price of a truck ride to Pusan hovered around three million won ($700). President Syngman Rhee put his country, now facing invasion for the second time in six months, under martial...
Dennis suffers the penalty of being too good. Opposing teams and fans ride him hard when a behind-the-back pass goes astray or a shot taken while moving away from the basket does not go in. In the Wesleyan game he seemed affected by the shouting of a group of fans...
...budget by buying cheap cabbage instead of costly spinach, the steady rise in living costs meant a steady drop in real earnings. But a million wage earners in the mass-production industries-including some 600,000 United Automobile Workers-have their pay hitched to Clague's index and ride up with it. For them, Clague's figures meant a 3?-an-hour pay raise which would cost employers $17 million. Thus the Government, by noting the actuality of inflation, automatically increased it ("built-in inflation," economists call...
...passengers were part of a scarred, frustrated and endlessly complaining tribe -the 300,000 New York commuters who daily ride the rachitic, mismanaged Long Island Rail Road. They were also resigned. During a decade of endless criticism, the road's ramshackle trains-which link Long Island's sprawling suburbia to Manhattan and carry the biggest daily passenger load in the U.S.-had gone right on running late, bogging down in snowstorms, killing motorists at grade crossings and risking the lives of their passengers...