Word: horseback
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some 25,000 visitors streamed in by automobile and pickup truck, by chartered bus and on horseback. Kennedy, flanked by Oklahoma Senator Robert Kerr and Governor J. Howard Edmondson, stood on a bunting-decked stand alongside State Highway 103 and delivered a lackluster five-minute speech: "I can assure you, in the '60s, as the U.S. carries the standard of freedom everywhere in the world, we will also be carrying the standard of progress here in Oklahoma." There were some perfunctory pats for Bob Kerr, Senator Mike Monroney and Representative Carl Albert. Then the President snipped a ribbon across...
...Saints' Day dawned cloudy and rainy last week in Algeria. In the cities, Moslems gathered by the thousands around the green-white-red banners of the rebel F.L.N. From rooftops and balconies, on foot and horseback, Moslem women encouraged the demonstrators with the traditional high-pitched chant of "Yu! Yu! Yu!" The demonstrations were in honor of Nov. 1, 1954, the date on which the F.L.N. rebellion began with scores of attacks across Algeria...
Contending that he was presenting grass-roots sentiment in Texas, the arch-conservative publisher read: "We need a man on horseback to lead this nation and many people in Texas and the Southwest think that you are riding Caroline's tricycle. The American people are aroused and rightly so. They are, as a body, way ahead of Washington. If you don't believe this, read the letters from readers' columns in most United States newspapers. The general opinion of the grass-roots thinking in this country is that you and your Administration are weak sisters...
What sparks of greatness Grigori does show come when he is spearing Germans from horseback in a battle attributed to the first World War, or else beating up a noble who has seduced one of his women. But killing Germans is more or less irrelevant to the movie's main themes--the rise of the peasants and the love life of Grigori--and the attack on the noble comes as a decidedly un-subtle conclusion to decidedly un-subtle presentation of the peasant-noble business. Perhaps the worst incident along this line was the first: the entrance of the party...
...guerrilla warfare against the Point, Abrams stood a mediocre 185th in his class of 276 upon graduation in 1936. That year Abrams married an athletic, auburn-haired Vassar graduate named Julia Harvey, who regularly drove him to distraction by trouncing him in tennis, and began his Army career on horseback in the ist Cavalry stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas...