Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shiraz, a city famed for its poets and fine wine, the Shah of Iran dedicated Iran's first municipal water system, statues of himself and his father, and a memorial to the Persian poet Saadi. Later he went horseback riding, and finished the week with a painful limp. As he stopped near a stream to water his horse, the horse shied and caught the Shah with a vicious kick above the ankle...
After being made a member of the Society of Sidewinders in Wickenburg, Ariz., Cinemactor Tyrone Power helped initiate a new group of greenhorns. The ritual: a week-long horseback ride in the desert followed by a snack of cocktails and rattlesnake meat...
Finally Sir Hugh got through to Dr. Pierres, and in an eight-minute conversation got the news: Don Stephen Senanayake, 67, Prime Minister of the four-year-old Dominion of Ceylon, had been seriously injured in a freak accident. During his morning horseback ride, his mount had bolted; after sticking to the horse for more than a mile, he had fallen off, somersaulted, landed on his head and never regained consciousness. Sir Hugh instructed Dr. Pierres how to carry on until he himself arrived in Ceylon...
What She Can Do. If the Queen pleases, she can ride in a horse carriage down Rotten Row, where others can only ride horseback. Her picture will appear on postage stamps, but she will not need them; her personal mail is franked. She can drive as fast as she likes in a car which needs no license number. She can tell her sister Margaret when she can marry, and will surely advise her on whom to marry. She can confer Britain's highest civilian decoration, the Order of Merit-one honor in which the Sovereign retains freedom of choice...
...Tall Men, he plays Sergeant "Mike," the tallest and the strongest of the ten men who save a French Colony from the claws of the Sheik's marauders. In doing so the sergeant wins a medal and a very remarkable princess--very remarkable because she can ride horseback for hours, wearing only gauze pants and a halter, without getting even sore knees...