Word: rode
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...rode freight trains for kicks...
Captain Derickson usually had breakfast with the President and rode with him in his carriage to the War Department or to the White House. As noted in a famous letter (now in the Smithsonian) that Lincoln wrote about Company K and its captain, Mr. Lincoln often stayed at the Soldiers' Home, which was then called the Soldiers' Retreat...
Brazil's President Joāo Goulart, who rode nationalism to power himself, has called foreign-owned utilities "a cadaver in the road to good relations" and has announced plans to buy out all foreign utility companies in the country. Goulart has already negotiated the purchase of International Telephone and Telegraph holdings, of American & Foreign Power Co. installations, and the Light's Rio telephone company. Since he has paid fair prices so far, and the Light expects to be nationalized sooner or later, the Light would just as soon it were sooner than later. Let someone else listen...
...have ever cracked the big time so abruptly. That first year under contract to Hooper. Baeza rode 170 winners and his horses earned $964,622. In 1961 he thwarted Carry Back's bid for the Triple Crown by winning the Belmont Stakes on Sherluck, a 65-1 longshot. Last year Baeza rode $2,048,428 worth of winners-more than any other jockey except Shoemaker. Last week, fresh from his Derby victory, Baeza rode seven winners in four days at Aqueduct, boosted his winning average for the meeting to an incredible...
...twin ceremonies in the Vatican Palace and St. Peter's Basilica, accepting his $160,000 Peace Prize (earmarked for charity) from the Swiss-Italian Balzan Foundation, next day turned up in the Quirinal Palace, where Italian President Antonio Segni presented Balzan awards to other cultural leaders. As he rode through Rome in an open car, the Pontiff -looking thinner than usual-was hailed by crowds crying "Viva! Viva...