Word: mounted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...using up 10,000 blank cartridges and 2,000 heavy charges of powder, re-enacted the final victory over the French. Twice the Haitians attacked the French ramparts, rebuilt on the original spot, and twice fell back. Then a daring cadet, taking the role of the rebel Colonel Capois, mounted a horse and led them forward again. In the real battle, the horse was shot from under Capois; in simulation, the mock colonel actually shot his own mount. Falling, he charged on afoot, like Capois, brandishing his saber...
...sketch of General Andrew Porter. De Joinville was chatting with a group of officers one afternoon when he saw the general crossing the parade ground. He whipped out his pencil, captured the pomposity of the potbellied commander astride an equally pompous, arch-necked mount...
...streets, has defied and amazed its critics with a phenomenal postwar building boom. In the short space of seven years, the big city has grown so fast that if all the new buildings were piled up, they would form a man-made mountain more than twice as tall as Mount Everest; Americans could soar 13 miles high in an elevator...
...most of the year he lives in South Lincoln. He commutes daily, spending his mornings at the Tennis and Squash Shop on Mount Auburn St. He goes over to Hemenway just after noon for his afternoons of coaching...
...there were difficulties. One was whether the U.S. should extend to Pakistan its guarantee to defend other peoples' boundaries (by NATO pact, the U.S. has already promised to defend 13 nations, extending in a vast crescent from Iceland to Mount Ararat in eastern Turkey). A budget-conscious new U.S. Administration is also not keen to take on another $250 million worth of foreign obligations. Furthermore, the U.S. is aware that Pakistan wants a strong army not only to protect itself against Russia, but against India, which it passionately dislikes, largely because of the Kashmir dispute...