Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nevada in a covered wagon, grew up in the Arizona Territory. His father was a rancher, but Henry himself had dreams of greater glory. In his blue-backed speller, when he was ten, he wrote: "Henry Fountain Ashurst, U.S. Senator from Arizona." To develop his voice, the young cowboy rode into the hills to address the landscape. He exhorted the boulders to rise against the iron heel of oppression. He demanded of the mountains that they nominate Grant for a third term. While other cowpunchers twanged The Old Chisholm Trail, Ashurst (who knew countless stanzas, both clean and dirty...
...gather news for this week's TIME, one of our correspondents spent more than two weeks trekking through one of the world's most depressing landscapes, and another rode the New York subway...
Willard C. Rappleye Jr. was the correspondent who rode the subway, following a fellow passenger in his rounds-the head of the world's biggest manufacturing corporation. General Motors' Chairman Fred Donner is a man who lives simply, was brought up in a family that did not seek publicity, rarely gives interviews, and on behalf of General Motors believes that "we would much rather be inscrutable than talk too much." His 9½ hours with Rappleye may set some sort of record for this reticent man. Recently, on one of Donner's inspection trips...
Jenny Lind's friends included Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Schumann and Brahms. Her great friend Felix Mendelssohn loved to sit at his piano and explore her upper register. Frederic Chopin referred to her affectionately as "this Swede." She often rode along the trails of Wimbledon with the 78-year-old Duke of Wellington, who decorated his dotage with bright young ladies of the stage. The crowned potentates of the Continent competed for her friendship, from Prince Metternich of Austria to King Frederick William of Prussia. She was a close friend of England's Queen Victoria. Accordingly, when Jenny Lind died...
...high, leafy bluff overlooking the Potomac in McLean, Va., just northwest of Washington, is a broad, lovely, 46-acre estate called Merrywood. There, from the time she was 13, Jacqueline Bouvier swam, played tennis, rode her pony and gamboled about. Merrywood is owned by Jackie Kennedy's stepfather, Hugh Dudley Auchincloss, who bought it in 1934 for $135,000. and who put $100,000 or more into such extras as a greenhouse and an indoor badminton court. But last week there was little merriment at Merrywood. Sighed its master, a gentle man who is known to friends and family...