Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chess until he was 85, when he gave it up because he found it was too exciting. At 86, after recovering from a brief bout with pneumonia, the first thing he did was call for his Indian clubs. When he was 90, he got on a Boston subway, rode to Cambridge, picked up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard, tucked it under his arm, got back on the subway and went home again...
...crowd of about 150 was on hand at Boston Airport as the Presidential plane touched down at 6:15 p.m., right on schedule. Boston Mayor John F. Collins and John W. McCormack, Speaker of the House, met the President at the airport, and rode with him in the back seat of an open Lincoln convertible...
While the pictures were being prepared for the President, CIA officials outlined the information by phone to McGeorge Bundy, Kennedy's adviser on national security. Bundy hurried out of his office in the west wing of the White House, rode the tiny elevator up to the President's living quarters on the second floor, and walked into Kennedy's bedroom. The President, who was dressed and had just finished breakfast, put down the morning papers and listened. His expression did not change as Bundy spun out the startling story...
...merry ways broke down all reserve. Stepping from his coach at Edinburgh's Princes Street station, he gallantly saluted Queen Elizabeth II, then bussed her on the cheek; in courtly succession, he kissed the Queen Mother, Princess Margaret, the Duchess of Kent and Princess Alexandra. As he rode next to the Queen in a state landau drawn by six grey horses, a crowd of 100,000 lined the Royal Mile to the Palace of Holyroodhouse to cheer the sailor King. Then the King was admitted to Scotland's oldest order of chivalry: along with British Foreign Secretary Lord...
...succeed Stanley Resor, then 81, who had run the agency for 44 years. The self-educated son of a railway clerk, Strouse joined Thompson as a space buyer in San Francisco 33 years ago and, after a World War II stint as a major on MacArthur's staff, rode the Ford account to the top of the agency. In his spare time, Strouse turns out handsomely designed pamphlets on a hand printing press in his elegant triplex apartment on Manhattan's Beekman Place...