Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...officers and navigators worked their range finders and slide rules, scribbled calculations. The eight eight-inch guns of the Australia fired a deafening broadside, the Canberra followed with her main battery. Fountains of white spray rose round the little target-ship, but when the smoke cleared, the Torrens still rode at anchor. Australia's navy tried again and yet again until Rear Admiral E. R. G. R. Evans judged that enough of the Commonwealth's money had been blown away, sent a motor launch bobbing over the waves to sink the Torrens with a prosaic charge of good...
...Tribe. On horseback, Desmond Holdridge, 24, explorer for the Brooklyn Museum, rode for 30 days from the mouth of the Amazon River to Rio Brasco in the jungle country of Brazil, close to the Venezulean border. With him went a native horse thief, the only guide brave enough to accompany him. In the heart of the jungle he found the Pishauko tribe, known to white men by name only. Originally a plains people, the Pishauko fled into the jungle to escape becoming slaves to Spanish conquerors. The natives worship before a symbol which looks like a crucifix, chant services before...
After three weeks of faltering, unimpressive flight from Switzerland, the great Dornier flying boat DO-X (TIME, Nov. 17) finally rode at anchor in Lisbon Harbor last week. There she was fuelled for another short hop to Cadiz while Dornier officials fussed and worried about her ability to fly to the U. S. this winter. Less than an hour after the fuel tanks were filled, fire broke out in the auxiliary engine room, jumped to the left wing, exploded the gasoline in the wing tank before the five men aboard knew what had happened. The four crewmen, led by Pilot...
...place called Tu Mu (near Huai Lai-hsien) they waited five hours for a train only to find it a freight bursting with rebel soldiers retreating before the influx of troops from Manchuria. Minister Johnson climbed aboard, "rode the rods" to Kalgan, kept the soldiers in high Chinese glee by translating some of his more successful U. S. anecdotes...
...come to that." Chapin, already planning suicide, feared what might befall his wife after he was gone. That night in their room in the Hotel Plaza, he shot her, watched for two hours until she was dead. Then he forgot his plan to kill himself, walked the town and rode the subway all night, mechanically turned toward his office in the morning. On his way, a headline caught his eye: "Charles Chapin Wanted for Murder." He walked into police headquarters...