Word: horsemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...annual U.S. harness-racing classic, the Hambletonian (TIME, Aug. 23, 1943), was also held last week, at Goshen, N.Y. As usual, a sign hung in front of the county jail reading: "Welcome Horsemen." The race brought out what the black-dirt farmers of Orange County called a "middlin' crop of three-year-olds." The favorite was Yankee Maid, owned by Arch L. Derby of Wichita, Kans., first horse from west of the Mississippi ever to win the event. She won as expected. Her fastest time over the mile course...
...Rifts. On & on it went, ringing skillful changes on the moods of fear, hope and desperate energy. But Goebbels' rhetoric could not quite obscure the fact that the Four Horsemen of the Nazi...
...rolled on to the mud huts of El Mrassas. All across the desert burnoused villagers on camelback peered eagerly from sand ridges, hailed their long-absent leader with rifle volleys fired into the air. At the village gates there were more gunfire greetings. Local sheiks genuflected. Desert drums throbbed. Horsemen staged a riotous rodeo. His Eminence, calming the hubbub with a gesture, told his followers they must thank the British for driving out the Italians. Some day, he added, he hoped to go back to Girabub to live. While the tribesmen cheered, El Senussi retired for the night; next...
Whoa! In Akron, the City Council, dismayed by the recklessness of local horsemen, adopted an ordinance prohibiting riders from putting their mounts through a trot, canter or gallop within city limits...
...Nary a line ... to express the sheer relief with which most of us viewed the elimination of this political charlatan, this masquerader. He may now take his rightful place among the three other horsemen of apostasy in New Deal administration...