Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Doctor.' " After a cordial reception in Houston early in the week, the pair zipped off to Chicago. No fewer than a million whooping people jammed curbstones and upper-floor windows and let fly with a blizzard of ticker tape that all but buried McDivitt and White as they rode in a parade down State Street and Michigan Avenue. That over, the astronauts flew to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, where each was solemnly awarded a newly created honorary degree -a doctorate of astronautical science. Already both had been nominated by the President for promotion from major...
...miles northeast of Lima. One afternoon, a band of about 60 guerrillas wearing Cuban-style, olive green uniforms and armed with submachine guns, invaded two big cattle estates, burning houses and barns, destroying a butter-and-cheese plant and cutting telephone wires. Then, six of the guer rillas rode to a mine, hijacked a mining company truck carrying 20 cases of dynamite, and blew up two bridges near the village of Concepcion. Other guerrillas attacked at least two other haciendas and surprised two small police outposts, captured four police and seized arms and ammunition...
...Wethersfield, Conn., high school senior who is president of his town's surfing club: "We travel to a different place every weekend. Next week we'll probably go to East Orleans on Cape Cod" -135 miles away. Decked out in neoprene "wet suits," booties and mittens, diehards rode the waves through last winter as far north as Boston...
...Cape Kennedy last week, Air Force Titan IIIC, the heaviest and most powerful rocket system ever launched, blasted off in a mighty torrent of flame and smoke, and with a deafening roar soared out of sight. Though U.S. hopes to close the rocket gap with the Soviet Union rode on the new Titan, the competition this time was not so much international as it was between solid rocket fuels and liquids...
...heat of the eruption. Curious to learn whether a volcano can make its own lightning, without "thunderclouds, a team of U.S. and Icelandic scientists studied the volcano that is forming the new island of Surtsey off the coast of Iceland. In Science, they report that they rode a fishing boat to within 250 yds. of the roaring vent, and flew in an airplane close to the hot, black plume. Once they saw rocks a foot in diameter tossed above their plane. They escaped injury and satisfied their curiosity: volcanoes do manufacture lightning...