Word: horseman
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...Puppet Son Ngoc Thanh was sent to jail in France; the King enrolled as a student officer (honorary rank: brigadier general) at the French army's school of cavalry and armor. His Majesty was a brilliant student. He returned to his people in 1947 an excellent horseman, an accomplished linguist and an enthusiastic driver of fast sport cars...
...first of six major elections in Latin America this year, Panama was choosing a President and a congress. Some 300,000 Spanish-descended hotbloods, dusty-footed Indian women and black West Indians lined up to deposit ballots marked (to aid the illiterate) with party symbols: a bell, a horseman, an ear of corn. Then, as a double precaution against double voting, each digged his fingers in a pot of indelible ink and presented his forearm to let one square inch of hair be shaved...
Back in England, Eric Williams learned the news of his friend's death. "He was quite the bravest, the most gifted and the most unassuming man I've ever met." Said Philpot, the third wooden-horseman: "It's appalling, but it's the way you might have expected...
...this had happened before: the automobile, the subway, the railroads had all been castigated as menaces to the community. As late as 1941, trains were not allowed to move along the New York Central freight tracks on Manhattan's West Side unless they were preceded by a horseman who carried a flag by day and a red lantern by night...
From his satin doublet to the tip of his gilt-handled rapier, John Gerard was the classic Elizabethan gentleman. He was tall and handsomely dark. The son of a noble Lancashire family, he had studied at Oxford, and spoke excellent French and Latin. He was a dashing horseman and a minor authority on falconry and the chase...