Word: mule
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Winter trippers enjoyed the cockfights and mule races in New Orleans, sunned in Galveston. Florida's coastal resorts were just opening up, thanks to Henry M. Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway. Daytona Beach was the tourist center. Miami Beach and Palm Beach did not yet exist. Only adventuresome women dared to bathe, clad in knee-length, pantalooned dresses, corsets, and beach shoes...
After a despairing conference with his advisers, Tibet's ruler, the 16-year-old Dalai Lama, made a hasty flight from his capital. Ahead of him went a thousand-mule train carrying 75 tons of the palace treasures. Before leaving, the Lama's government notified Chinese Communist headquarters that it was defenseless and ready to sue for peace. The new rulers of Tibet radioed back instructions to all government officers to stay...
...moments of glum self-appraisal seemed mostly concerned with his daughter's instant reaction to the first news of the letter-her "absolutely positive" belief that her father would never use such language. The President was also a little taken aback at the worldwide sensation his mule skinner's phrasing...
...summer day in 1859, a blacksmith galloped into tiny Titusville, Pa. on a mule and shouted electrifying news: "Struck oil! Struck oil!" The blacksmith was W. H. ("Uncle Billy") Smith, who had helped "Colonel"* Edwin L. Drake drill the nation's first commercial oil well, thus launch the U.S. petroleum industry. As the news spread, Titusville mushroomed into a city of 9,046 and became the U.S. oil capital. So sure were Pennsylvania oilmen that the state had been endowed with a unique gift of nature that they had a saying: "I'll drink every drop...
...Baker's column kept rolling, fired ahead and to its flanks as it rolled. One of Baker's gunners kept score on its hits in a little notebook: "9:05 p.m.-two more; two more; seven more; 9:35 p.m.-30 Reds, two carts; two more; two mule carts full of Reds; one jeep; six more...