Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once asked him in a long private talk at Hyannis Port what he wanted to have achieved by the time he rode down Pennsylvania Avenue with his successor. He looked at me as if I were a dreaming child. I tried again: did he not feel the need of some goal to help guide his day-to-day decisions and priorities? Again, a ghastly pause. It was only when I turned the question to immediate, tangible problems that he seized the point and rolled off a torrent of statistics about the difficulty of organizing nations at different levels of economic...
...crystal coach drawn by six white horses, Queen Elizabeth rode in state last week to the Palace of Westminster for the ceremonial opening of a new Parliament. Seldom has that arcane ritual seemed more at odds with reality. Elizabeth's "most gracious speech from the throne," written for the monarch by the first Labor government in her eleven-year reign, was a catalogue of welfare statism that immediately challenged the Tories' disposition to let the new administration "play itself in." Gambling its slender, five-seat majority in the House of Commons, Labor declared its determination to renationalize...
There he was, a stolid figure in the rear of an open car, his eyes downcast, a study in dejection. He rode in dour silence to the Capitol while Presidentelect Franklin Roosevelt, sitting beside him, smiled that famous smile and waved to the cheering throngs...
...motoreads, which toured the main thoroughfaros downtown past cheering crowds five and six deep, Johnson rode in the Lincoln limousine in which his predecessor was assesinated. The car has been completely rebuilt and a bulletproof plastic top was added...
...letters, also read every book and major article that had been written on the Kennedy killing. FBI and CIA agents tried to discover and analyze every step that Oswald took during a curious trip to Mexico exactly one year ago. They questioned the drivers of the buses that Oswald rode to Mexico and back, and rounded up practically every passenger who had traveled with him. They spoke to waitresses at a restaurant where he often ate, to clerks and maids in the cheap Hotel del Comercio where he stayed. But with all that, the Commission could account for only...