Word: chargers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remind me of an actor playing the tiger in the famous Burmese drama Mai U. While waiting for his cue to chase the villain he fell asleep, only to wake up suddenly in the middle of the next play, where Prince Siddhartha (Gautama Buddha) was setting out on his charger to follow the life of an ascetic. Thinking he was still in the previous play, the sleepy actor chased savagely after the noble horse...
...horse's mouth. The second is much older, and inclined to be mulish; that is my block of Southern states . . . And then my third horse, a nervous and skittish steed which I seldom dare mention by name. You will consider my naming it confidential, please? . . . My Roman Catholic charger. There are twenty million Catholics in this country, and the great bulk of them think and vote as their Church advises...
Standing in for the British, dozens of crimson-coated members of the University Band will enter Paul Revere square in the vanguard of the Patriots Day parade, setting the charger off on its traditional race through Lexington and Concord...
Donna Holabird's foundation was plucked from under her by University officials yesterday, as they vetoed VTW plans to mount the maid on a white charger in forthcoming St. Joan...
Republicans, who control the Senate, did not seem to be listening. The whole thing, it seemed, might subside; McKellar would clump off on his moth-eaten charger and Lilienthal would be confirmed. Then, last week, something happened...