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...many good beef cattle were crippled that steer roping was outlawed in Texas 60 years ago. Today's rodeo cowboys rope calves-mean Brahman calves that weigh up to 300 Ibs. and can smash a roper's ribs with one kick. The roper races against time: on horseback, he must run down and lasso a charging calf, jump off his horse, wrestle the calf on its side, loop three of its legs with a "pigging string," and finish off his handiwork with a nonslip "hooey" hitch. Expert ropers can do it all in ten seconds or less...
...commercial meaning: "One's end depends on one's origin." More hopefully, Phillips took it to mean: "Well begun is half done." George Washington thought so well of the school that he sent his favorite nephew and eight grandnephews, and in 1789 addressed the student body on horseback...
...elections were over he and Joan planned to settle there and find their future. Teddy crossed Wyoming six times, and delegates can recall literally being held by their lapels while Teddy extolled his brother. Says Wyoming Democratic Chairman Teno Roncalio: "He made me get up every morning and go horseback riding with him at 6 o'clock-and for an hour and a half!" At the Los Angeles convention, saddlesore Roncalio was vice chairman of the Wyoming delegation that gave all of its 15 votes to Jack-and put him over the top for the nomination. In the general...
...version of history, Monroe's victory brought on George Washington's death. News of the election results, the story runs, reached Mount Vernon on a snowy December evening just as Washington, tired, cold and wet, returned home from a tour on horseback. Still bitter toward his former Minister to France, Washington talked long and angrily about the election without taking time to change into dry clothes...
...Lady on Horseback. One of Ceezee's basic interests in life is riding. Every morning when the Guests are in Manhattan, she drives up to White Plains to take lessons from Coach Gordon Wright on the details of ringmanship-feet, hands, and placement for the jumps. From time to time throughout the year, the Guests spend a few days at Middleburg. Va.. where they have a small cottage on the estate of a Phiops cousin. There Ceezee and Jacqueline Kennedy have known each other on the hunting field for years (though Ceezee knew Jack Kennedy slightly when...