Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a dry wit and sometimes sharp thrust. Universally liked around the White House, he carefully addresses Kennedy as "Mr. President," just as carefully avoids horning in on any serious matters of state. His invariable greeting for even the stuffiest White House visitor is "Hi, pal." As he rode through the streets of Paris in a motorcade after meeting Charles de Gaulle, Powers waved to the crowd and shouted: "Comment alley-voos...
...onetime bunny in the buff for Playboy, Hollywood Starlet Jill St. John, 21, tried terribly hard to keep up with her auto-racing husband, Five & Dime Heir Lance Reventlow, 26, only issue of Barbara Hutton's six marriages. Lance's bride even rode a motorcycle to get the feel of a wheel, but when it hit 25 m.p.h., Jill came tumbling after. Finally their two-year marriage went all aflivver and Jill sued for separate maintenance, demanding all of their communal property. Definitely not for her: the 1961 Porsche, Mercedes 3005L, 1936 Rolls-Royce, slinky Scarab racer...
Search for Power. Betty caught on as Washington's diarist in 1945. She rode to, the crest of capital society in the wake of Good Friend Perle Mesta. In the process, she built a strong reputation as a reporter...
Along with Sydney, two other major foreign exchanges rode out the storm almost unaffected. In Tokyo, stock prices were already so low that Wall Street's gyrations produced only minor ripples. And in South Africa, rigid government currency controls have so cut off the local financial community from the rest of the world that the Rand Daily Mail index shrugged off Blue Monday with a drop of only one-tenth of a point. Mused one Joburg broker: "There might be something to isolation after...
...been going on in the U.S. and the county up till today. In almost the same breath, he refers to the rush of automobiles that have all but swamped modern-day Yoknapatawpha, and to the Gayoso Hotel in Memphis where he always stayed because, in 1864, an ancestor rode into the lobby trying to lay hands on a Yankee general...