Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Point Tunner first met his roommate's sister, pretty Margaret Sams. Will fell hard for her, and took her out horseback riding, a sport at which he excelled. Margaret, too, fell hard-off her horse. She went home with a broken leg and a faithful correspondent at West Point. In June 1929, after Tunner had graduated from the Academy and from the Air Corps Flying School at Kelly Field, Texas, he and Margaret were married...
...military headquarters in Tokyo gave its estimate of North Korean casualties-30,000-35,000-and it was obviously a horseback guess. But Tokyo had not yet evolved a systematic plan for reporting U.S. casualties. A tabulation worked out last week from figures in communiques, which are well behind the actualities of battle, summarized casualties among U.S. troops...
...Indians postponed their annual spring Bear Dance for a day, poured across the reservation in battered cars, in wagons and on horseback to meet the attorney in a dilapidated school at Fort Duchesne. After they had filled the folding chairs, and squatted in impassive lines along the walls, Lawyer Wilkinson rose, took off his coat, and launched into a recital of his triumphs...
Surprise. In Douglas, Wyo., 14-year-old Jimmy Willox, after having ridden horseback 20 miles to school every day for the past eight years, received an eighth-grade graduation present from his proud father: a saddle horse...
...producers of this picture were especially fortunate in getting Chief Thundercloud to head their Injun band. This leather-faced gentleman reveals all the majesty of the old Indian chieftains, and is excellent except for his Chinese accent. Also noteworthy are the amazing number of people picked off while on horseback...