Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four-day pack trip along the 9,200-ft. timber line in the High Sierras rode California's Governor Pat Brown, 53 relaxing from the rigors of his campaign against G.O.P. Challenger Richard Nixon. What was the name of his rented chestnut mare? asked newsmen as the Governor and his troop of 21 fellow campers clopped off into the wilds. "Richard," replied Brown, never the one to let gender interfere with a wisecrack. "I intend to ride him hard. And that's what I'm going to be doing for the next three months." Poor Daisy...
...parts of medicine bottles that the Spanish colonists carried with them into the wilderness. Nothing spectacular or beautiful is likely to be found, for San Gabriel was the crudest sort of frontier foothold. But enough has been located already to bring to life the days when the armored conquistadors rode up the great river from Mexico...
...meeting were some who came all the way from ranches in Texas and Arizona-just as their forebears did in decades past. The cow country's first campfire meeting was organized back in 1890 by the Rev. W. B. Bloys, Stated Clerk of the El Paso Presbytery, who rode out to a campsite in the Davis Mountains to preach for three days to a handful of cowpokes and ranch families. Onetime Texas Cattle Dealer Joe Evans, now 80, remembers hearing Bloys preach. Evans, a Baptist layman, worked with the forerunner of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A...
...typical: the destination was Cleveland, 300 miles away, where the band had a concert the following afternoon. As soon as the bus pulled out. the bandsmen settled down to the jazz world's two favorite antidotes to boredom-poker (rear of the bus) and drinking (front). Kenton rode in the well at the front door. A few lucky musicians were able to sleep, notably Saxophonist Joel Kaye, who at 140 lbs. is small enough to slip into the overhead luggage rack. A couple of other bandsmen listened over individual earphones to the tape recorder that Kenton had installed...
...youngster he lived in a suburb and rode the commuting trains ... He rubbed elbows with a motley group of friends and neighbors and scrambled with them for a seat when the train came in . . . Public opinion flowed around him." But with success, writes Randall, "his schedule became so complex and the end of his day so unpredictable that a limousine and chauffeur became indispensable . . . Gone forever was the boisterous elbow-rubbing with friends who might hold contrary opinions...