Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps no critic of London's Savile Row will ever surpass the wrathful British nobleman who once rode his horse into his tailor's, and while it messed up the carpet complained about his riding breeches: "Too tight at the fork and the kneepan, damn you, too baggy everywhere else!" Last week criticism in the century-old sartorial capital of the male world was being heard once again. The topic was still baggy trousers...
...wreath on the Partisan Plaque, which commemorates Italian resistance to the Fascists during World War II. The celere, under orders to permit no demonstrations of any kind, quickly moved to disperse the mob. The crowd charged the police, heaving bricks and wielding staves. Then a troop of mounted carabinieri rode into...
Bound for Armed Forces Day ceremonies at Caracas' Military School, Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt rode through the city streets in the presidential limousine chatting to Defense Minister Josue Lopez Henríquez and Mrs. Henriquez, who were beside him. A onetime leftist grown moderate with the years, Betancourt came to power two years ago after the overthrow of the tyrant Marcos Pérez Jiménez, and devoutly hopes to symbolize an end to the traditional violence of oil-rich Venezuela. Chauffeur Azael Valero swung the black presidential car onto the Avenida...
Cambodians last week streamed to the polls. Wild Phnong tribesmen rode their elephants down from the hills; baby-toting women in sarongs streamed into dusty towns; saffron-robed Buddhist monks padded through the silent ruins of Angkor Wat. When the ballots were counted, Prince Sihanouk had won a total of 1,981,136 votes to only 133 for his exiled rival, 128 for the Communists and a puzzled 93 for No Opinion. His grand total...
...steadily acquiring more property with the help of long-term loans ("Long-term credit never hurt anyone. It's short-term credit that breaks people"), Corrigan rode the countrywide real estate boom. He now owns some 100 shopping centers scattered through the U.S., 200 apartment buildings with more than 15,000 rooms, 15 hotels, ten office buildings. Among his properties are the Emerald Beach Hotel in the Bahamas, the 1,660-room Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles, the 1,500-room Adolphus Hotel in Dallas and the Bank of Georgia Building now under construction in Atlanta. At 31 stories...