Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GHOST ON HORSEBACK, THE INCREDIBLE ATATURK (408 pp.)-Ray Brock-Duell Sloan & Pearce...
...comes from "work . . . and [having] no people dependent on me to take my time." She lives alone in an apartment on Manhattan's East 62nd Street, celebrated her birthday at Hyde Park with all of her children present except Elliott (expected later). For exercise she no longer rides horseback through the Putnam County woods, but often strolls over the countryside with her two Scotties, one a grandson of F.D.R.'s famed Fala. Looking ahead, Eleanor Roosevelt, who has already accumulated 19 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, anticipates lots more of life, no neatly defined hereafter. Said she: "There...
John Wesley never seemed to forget his mother's words. A spiritual fire burned within him. In a life that all but spanned the 18th century (he died in 1791, aged 87), the founder of Methodism traveled hundreds of thousands of miles (mostly on horseback), preached 42,000 sermons, wrote learned volumes on subjects as far apart as Hebrew grammar and the electrical treatment of rheumatism. Wesley's Methodist revival embraced all Britain, moved on to America, and today, in Methodist missions, reaches round the world...
Miller leaped out after her, caught her, knocked her down and dragged her back to the car. As he did so, she saw some horseback riders in the distance. She began to scream. Grappling with her, the man snarled, "If you ever try that again, I'll kill you." He forced her to open the trunk compartment of the car and ordered her to crawl in. She did. He slammed it shut...
...succeed Dwight Griswold.) She was a Republican precinct worker for 20 years, then county chairman; since 1946, she has been vice chairman of the Nebraska Republican State Central Committee. To get to political meetings on the western Nebraska plains, she has traveled by plane, car, snow sled and on horseback. Says she: "I've gone to those meetings in everything but a manure spreader...