Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...himself undertook to adjudicate. In forming a common front on the eight points, the Army had done most of the giving, the Navy most of the taking. There would be no Chief of Staff of all the armed forces (who, it had been feared, might become "a man on horseback"); the Joint Chiefs would remain the top military directors; there would be a Council of Common Defense and a National Security Resources Board, as proposed in Ferdinand Eberstadt's Navy plan...
...Littleboro, Lancashire, the countryside tells a century of cotton history. There are the old cottages, where women used to hand out woven cloth to merchants on horseback in return for more yarn to weave into more cloth. There is the 100-year-old red brick mill, which Cuthbert Barwick Clegg's grandfather built to replace cottage industry, and where he prospered. (Now a third of its 1,500 prewar workers rattle around in the big weaving rooms among many idle looms.) There is the big grey stone house, built by Grandfather Clegg, now too big for Cuthbert to staff...
There were new picketing techniques. In North Andover, Mass., mounted steelworkers rode horseback in front of the Davis & Furber Machine Co. carrying signs: "Let's Share Profits." In Los Angeles, a returned veteran dressed up in a Luftwaffe uniform and German gas mask to picket Consolidated Steel...
...Beware the Chasm!" One day, shortly after her seduction, Honor went horseback riding with Sir Richard. "Beware the chasm!" he cried, as they charged across a wild moor. It was too late. Honor plummeted into the "yawning crevice" and was totally wrecked below the waist. So Richard married a rich widow...
...ride no farther he got out and walked, erect, though mortar shells were bursting all around. More than once, Patton had said that he wanted to die on the battlefield. Man in Armor. A cavalryman by training and by temperament, California-born George Patton was the medieval man on horseback-in mechanized armor. Even before his country was at war, he wanted to joust with Nazi Erwin Rommel-each contestant in a tank. "The two armies could watch," said he. "I'd shoot at him, he'd shoot at me. If I killed...