Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the Pentagon's top priority, generous appropriations from Congress and Schriever's skilled midwifery, the project successfully gave birth to a whole family of missiles, the most recent of which is the Minuteman, current mainstay of the Strategic Air Command. Schriever rode his missiles to four-star rank and leadership of the Air Force Systems Command, where, at the early age of 50, he became his service's No. 1 technocrat. But last week, under a broiling sun and a flyover of 19 jet planes, Schriever, tall and still youthful-looking at 55, took the parade...
...barbed wire, watchtowers and border patrols that hem Communist frontiers. Last week two Hungarians escaped to Austria by flying their tiny sports plane at treetop level all the way from Budapest. A pair of Rumanians recently hid for three days under a truckload of tomatoes bound for Austria. Another rode into Vienna in a refrigerated railway car, where he spent seven days and nights huddled between two sides of beef, nibbling raw meat for nourishment. One Hungarian even ran a stolen train across the Austrian border at 50 m.p.h. But of all the tight spots escapees get themselves into...
...lost in a bitter contest. He practiced law for the next seven years, then decided in 1961 to challenge the incumbent mayor, genial but colorless Norris Poulson. Sam shaved off the mustache he had worn since he was 17 ("I always wanted to look older") and literally rode into office on trash. A major campaign issue that won the hearts of housewives was his opposition to a since-repealed city ordinance requiring that tin cans be separated from other rubbish...
Down with Demons. Lin rode to the threshold of power on the purge. It was Lin's army newspaper that ten months ago heralded the nation's return to a stern revolutionary discipline by calling for a campaign against the "black antiparty, anti-Socialist line that runs counter to Mao's thought." In fact, Mao earlier this month commissioned Lin to use the army to turn all China into a "revolutionary school" and every Chinese into a soldier...
...wore, the candles they burned and even the bullets they used to drive off marauding bands of Bushmen. They built their own sturdy homes, used the Bible -the only book they had-to teach their children how to read. When they saw their neighbors, it was usually when they rode to worship at the nearest church, often a two-day journey from their farm. There was no shortage of labor, however. Hottentots and imported East Indian slaves were easy to come by and inexpensive to maintain. Gradually, the Boer farmer became lord of his whole horizon and far beyond...