Let freedom ride.4TH OF JULY--vacation day, sun, skating skating: see ice skating; ice dancing; roller skating. skating Sport in which bladelike runners or sets of wheels attached to shoes are used for gliding on ice or on surfaces other than ice. , food, and watching your friends run for their lives from a bottle rocket A bottle rocket is a very small skyrocket. A typical bottle rocket consists of a rocket engine attached to a stabilizing stick. The user can place the stick in an empty bottle (hence the name), and ignite the rocket engine; the mouth of the bottle guides the stick, stabilizing the onslaught. "Incoming!" Most skaters associate England with Rowley, Penny and rough streets. But 230 years ago (an eyeblink eye·blink n. An extremely short period of time; an instant. in world history) some free-thinking fellows risked it all and barely beat the Redcoats so we could enjoy the finer and gnarlier things in life. These guys could not have foreseen skateboarding skateboarding Form of recreation, popular among youths, in which a person rides standing balanced on a small board mounted on wheels. The skateboard first appeared in the early 1960s on paved areas along California beaches as a makeshift diversion for surfers when the ocean , but you know they would have been down--the movement, the freedom, the independence. No sappy star-spangled salute here. Just a reminder to let freedom ride. |
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