Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young royal couple get along fine together. High strung, she does not enjoy queenly functions, preferring to be alone with her husband. She has taken up his favorite sports, horseback riding and skiing. Soraya loves expensive clothes, has lots of them, wears them well. Iranians like their women to stay quietly in the background; she is therefore popular. So far the Shah and his wife have no children...
...enamel." Francois marries her, but he cannot forget Claude. She has almost ruined herself by spending too much time in the primrose (or aquamarine) bed of dalliance with a bunch of softies. But soon after the slapping incident, François is seen pursuing her through a forest on horseback, whipping her until she is at last dragged through a heap of "fine liquid mud" and forced to surrender, "howling her rattle of a she-wolf...
...enough (2,000 acres) to hold the twelve tribes of Israel, and it sounds, from the description of its boosters, like a land of milk & honey. From all over the U.S., some 3,000 Baptist Sunday-school teachers converged on Glorieta for seminars and steak fries, lectures and horseback riding, hiking and hymn-sings. It was their first glimpse of the camp, which, when it is finished in 1956 at an estimated cost of $7,000,000, will boast gardens, an artificial lake, hotels, dining halls, cottages and cabins to house half a million Baptists each summer...
...miles in 50 years to bring religion back to the people he thought the Church of England had forgotten. Much of John Wesley's journeying was uphill. Gangs of bullies dogged his steps. A heckler's stone gashed a scar upon his brow. But afoot and on horseback, he kept on going, a short little man in a plain black coat, whose hair was silken white most of his adult life. And his labors helped establish a world church of 14½ million members...
...Governor Christian A. Herter '15 arrived at the Johnson gate, next to Massachusetts Hall. Herter was escorted by scarlet-coated National Lancers of Massachusetts on horseback. This is part of a tradition dating back to the days when the Commonwealth of Massachusetts operated the University directly...