Word: piggybackers
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...beach at Rapallo, Italy, photographers caught a merry picture of Renato Roberto Rossellini, 2, getting a piggyback ride from his famous mother, Ingrid Bergman, treating herself to a holiday after giving birth to twin daughters two months...
...rocket was a "piggyback" combination : a small Wac Corporal set in the nose of a German V2. An earlier test the week before had been a fizzle (a fuel pump went haywire), but this time the V-2 roared up and turned east over the ocean. In one minute and 20 seconds it reached an altitude of 51,000 ft. and a speed of 1,700 m.p.h...
...experiments with chimpanzees and the even more primitive cebus monkey proved that these animals can understand symbols representing food, water or piggyback rides. Therefore they have the basic tools for rudimentary thinking...
Elsewhere in Texas, John Nance Garner unbuckled his belt and took it easy by playing piggyback with great-grandson John Garner Curry, 2½ (see cut). The ex-Vice President was looking no farther ahead than his 70th birthday, next fortnight...
...professional heavyweight finalists were also two Americans − Claude ("Kill er") Brown of Louisville, Ky., a dead-ringer for Tony Galento, outpointed Sailor Harry Thompson of Many, La. Both were carried piggyback to the ring to keep their feet dry. The American who worked the hardest was former world heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, who refereed most of the bouts...