Word: rode
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Steve Forbes' relationship with his flamboyant father, the late Malcolm Forbes Sr. His father, after all, is the man who used to make his children practice the bagpipes and wear matching kilts to church on Sundays; who bought a bottle of Thomas Jefferson's claret for $157,000; who rode motorcycles and hot-air balloons, escorted Elizabeth Taylor and collected homoerotic art, Faberge eggs, 12,000 toy soldiers, an island in Fiji, a chateau in Normandy and a palace in Morocco...
Once, not so long ago, schussers and shredders were the Hatfields and McCoys, the sheepherders and cattle ranchers, of the slopes. Separated by age, fashion, etiquette, lingo and per capita income, the skier and the snowboarder rode up the mountain together in chilly silence...
...Crimson rode its success Friday into the Saturday tournament, finishing fifth among a field of 15. Only six points came between Harvard and a second place finish in the tourney...
...marriages far behind him, he spent his final years dining alone nightly at an Italian eatery in Beverly Hills. At home this past Christmas Eve, he was attended only by a nurse. She gave him a last drink--water!--and he died. No grieving, please: the cowboy crooner finally rode off into the oblivion he always seemed to crave. And, as Dino might have observed, it beats working...
...BACK UP ON THE HORSE Our toughest athlete may be a 100-lb. sprite who sits atop 1,000-lb. beasts. A year and a half after Julie Krone broke an anatomy course's worth of bones at Saratoga, she rode in the Kentucky Derby, finishing 11th...