Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indolence," he reasoned. "And according to our faith, he who avoids the seven mortal sins will be saved; therefore, the good sportsmen will be saved." Popes Julius II, Leo X and Pius II-who wrote his own treatise on venery under his Christian name, Aeneas Silvius-all enthusiastically rode to hounds. And while papal edict forbade monks to hunt, the church gave its blessing to the chase by proclaiming Hubert, the 8th century Bishop of Liege who saw Christ's image on a stag's brow, its patron saint...
Moving to Marion, Ohio, young Harding dabbled in teaching, browsed briefly over law books, sold insurance, played his cornet at the roller-skating rink, and rode the bench as substitute first baseman on the town's ball club. He also began to master perhaps his most highly developed skill: draw poker...
...Sweden's Bjoern Perm, 24, a 5-ft. 11-in., 159-lb. university student from Stockholm, rode, fenced, shot, swam and ran his way to victory in the modern pentathlon, a quasi-military test of skill and stamina that many experts consider to be even more demanding than the decathlon. After four days of brutal competition, Perm ran 4,000 meters across country in 14 min. 25.7 sec. to edge Hungary's Andras Balczo for the gold medal by the thin margin of 11 points...
...came a "Sun Dance." The musicians played drums, chimes, tom-toms, anything at all, while the audience hopped around in the mire chanting, "Sun! Sun! Sun! Sun!" When the sun obliged, a balloonist named Mark Semich took off in a huge red, white and blue hot-air balloon and rode the wind over the hills. That was supposed to be the lighter-than-air part of the festival, but Semich need not have gone to the trouble: many of the youngsters were already lighter than...
...were the gasoline truck and the tow truck. Four of the seven 16-mm. cameras went out of commission the first three weeks, and the film kept melting. Holden's human brigade got through unscathed, though, thanks in part to the Kenya Army Camel Corps, which rode shotgun for the company to protect it against marauding Shifta tribesmen. Holden survived partly on a daily diet of 15 cans of Carlsberg beer (he brought along 120 cases...