Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mine, stranding the 15 on a lifesaving ledge. The unlucky ten working at the source of the flood were presumed to have drowned. Boreholes were drilled from the surface to the lucky 15, through which rescuers lowered hot coffee and food; after five days of entombment, they rode a conveyor belt out of the mine...
...Yale rode to its first Hep victory in five years by accounting for all four meet records broken--the long jump, 220, 440-relay, and mile relay. It was the Elis' winning 3:13.3 clocking in the mile relay--the final event of the day--which decided the outcome of the meet...
...Souto, 18. Almost instantly he became a martyr, and the next day 20,000 persons marched with his body to the city's Sao Joao Batista Cemetery. Last week 16 special memorial Masses for Lima were held around the city. At the biggest service, saber-swinging horse guards rode right up onto the steps of Candalaria Church, galloping into the midst of startled students and bystanders as they left the service, forcing them to flee in every direction...
Like the author, Lyle DeFord is a wanderer come to rest on the West Coast. He is a carpenter, and a good one, a descendant of hardworking, hard-luck ancestors who moved to the U.S. in 1772. He is as old as this century; he rode the rods in the '20s, and after a life of honest work, he subsists on social security. He journeys East for an old relative's funeral, and in New York City he is knocked down by a heart attack. His hand-crafted wooden suitcase is still in hand, his treasured copy...
...Irish assassins from Swift to Shaw: the smug face of English hypocrisy, personified in this case by a sanctimonious divorce judge named Sir Toby Routh. His fiercely prudish sermons from the bench drive adulterers to suicide and his wife to drink. He is as pompous a prig as ever rode a Rolls to work and pride to a fall. But the only tumble Miss Tracy gives him is into the downy bed of Gerda Trauenegg, a well-tuned opera singer from Vienna. Catching him with his wig down, Gerda momentarily taps a streak of puritanical lechery...