Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention was riveted to TIME as I rode a bus climbing into the Judean Hills from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. You could not have chosen a more appropriate time than Passover to discuss the modern Pharaoh who glares across the Red Sea at us. As the bus wound higher into the hills, the elderly lady seated next to me looked at the expression on my face, then eyed Nasser's picture, and, patting my arm, she said, "Never mind, never mind. God will protect us. Fifteen years ago we had nothing here at all. Now see," and she nodded...
Other jockeys call Steve Brooks, 41, "the psychiatrist," and swear that he talks to his horses. If he does-and Brooks does not deny it-he speaks the right language. Last week, at Florida's Gulfstream Park, he rode Johnsal, a three-year-old colt, to victory in a $3,000, six-furlong sprint. For Johnsal, it was win No. 1 in a year of trying. For Brooks, it was win No. 4,000, in 25 years of succeeding. Only Johnny Longden, Eddie Arcaro, Willie Shoemaker and Britain's Sir Gordon Richards have won more races...
...dozen Harvard Young Democrats rode into friendly New Frontier territory ever Spring vacation, interviewed a constellation of Administration and Congressional leaders, and emerged from the Capitol replenished with liberal conviction...
...later took to a nationwide radio hookup to speak for them: "We strongly support the present government. There are seeds of uneasiness in the country, and this is not the time to transfer the government to civilians.'' Then, to make the point more emphatically, all 160 officers rode grandly through the streets of Seoul in a convoy of military Jeeps...
...rode home in a rented Chevrolet, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was already working out the details of his next dream. "There ain't no such thing as love for me," he mused sadly. "Not while I'm goin' on to that championship. But when I get that championship, then I'm goin' to put on my old jeans and get an old hat and grow a beard. And I'm goin' walk down the road until I find a little fox who just loves me for what I am. And then...