Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tanker from World War I days, he rode his tank across fields and through woods, stood waist-deep in a river to guide others across, sat with his men in the grass at halts, cursed roundly at delay and slow-footed action...
...equal terms between the Judiciary, the Executive and the Congress, a change in the Supreme Court did not mean a sweeping change in the interpretation of the Constitution. But industrialism welded the U.S. people toward economic unity. More & more problems arose requiring national solutions. Nearly everything but the law rode over artificial State boundaries. In the depression the U.S. began to demand that its Executive be more executive; that the Government govern more, assume the responsibility for its citizens' economic security and livelihood. So the New Deal, although it failed in its frontal assault on the Court...
Driven from Crete by these losses was a fugitive from injustice, George II of Greece. The King was separated from his troops by parachutists in the first hours of fighting, but he eluded them, rode on muleback for two days across Crete's sharp spine, embarked for Alexandria in a British destroyer...
Belle was started on the primrose path by a seducer. One day, when she was 18, Bandit Cole Younger and five other horsemen rode up to her father's farmhouse in eastern Texas. A big man with steel-blue eyes and fine, curly hair, Cole Younger, with his brothers and the James clan, had staged the country's first bank robbery -in Liberty, Tex., in 1866. He read theology on the side...
...question of U.S. intervention in the war rode clamorously into Congress last week on the back of the Ship Seizure Bill. The bill gave the President authority to purchase or lease some 500,000 tons of Danish, Italian, French, German, Belgian, Rumanian, Estonian and Lithuanian vessels which lie idle in U.S. harbors and throw them into the Battle of the Atlantic. In the House the bill stirred up the whole argument over convoys, interventionists called the bill "an act of war," and for the third time the German Government sent a formal protest...