Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flags and blaring bands. Some 200.000 including children out of school for the day lined the streets to cheer him as he passed by in the motorcade, and great numbers of them were still waiting on the sidewalks after he finished his speech, to cheer him again as he rode back toward the heart of town...
Powell worked his way through two years at the University of New Hampshire, then set out for the West to earn enough money to finish his education. He rode circuit in Wyoming as a lay Congregational minister, got his law degree at Southern Methodist, and ended up in 1940 working for a young New Hampshire Senator named Styles Bridges. When Powell arrived at 8:14 a.m. on his first work day. Bridges exclaimed: "By God, you and I are going to get along all right." They did, indeed. As Bridges' political protege. Powell managed the offce...
...favorite horse. An hour with the bulls last week left him with a pain so intense he feared he would die from it. Finally he made his decision. He mounted Maravilla for a last fond ride across his plain. He spoke with special kindness to each of his peones, rode to his whitewashed ranch bouse and disappeared into his study. There he took a pistol from a table drawer, and with one shot to the temple, he was dead. He would have been 70 years old this week...
...Citation, Arcaro became the only jockey to win rac ing's famed Triple Crown* twice. He was a record five-time winner of the Derby. He posted six victories in the Preakness and six in the Belmont Stakes, for an other pair of records. Last year Arcaro rode Kelso, one of the greatest racers ever, to a Horse of the Year title, winning seven victories in nine starts to collect...
...Coiled Mind. On a horse, Jockey Arcaro was all coiled mind and muscle. Yet somehow he managed to look ill at ease. His long Cyrano nose protruded beyond his cap and goggles, as he rode in "ace-deuce" fashion with his right stirrup two inches higher than the left. He carried on a running conversation with all his mounts, his voice and spurs and whip speaking urgently but never harshly. He had a theory that it was almost always better to dangle a whip menacingly in front of a horse's nose than to slash heavily at the animal...