Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woods. His grandparents gave their land to Cornell University-so he said. In 1861 he enlisted in Pennsylvania's 71st Infantry. "I fit in the Battle of Gettysburg. A Minieball took the tip of my finger off. Shell creased my scalp. When the battle was over I rode a horse to the White House to tell the President. ... I left Gettysburg at 3:30 p.m. and arrived at Lincoln's place at 9:15 that evening...
...ready to move. By dawn the whole outfit was rumbling south toward Florida on parallel roads. In approach-to-battle formation, trucks rumbled 100 yards apart; machine gunners stood with their eyes on the skies getting the habit of watching for planes; soldiers of the three infantry regiments rode in trucks (soon to be replaced by 603 troop carriers with caterpillar treads). Each infantry outfit was followed by a battalion of artillery with 75-mm. guns (soon to be replaced by the new 105-mm. howitzers). Farther back came the division's big guns, a battalion of bigmouthed, ugly...
...within six miles of Natchez, and at the low point of the Depression, Southern homeowners discovered that visitors were still willing to pay a fee to inspect them. In no time the Pilgrimage was an institution. Each spring pretty girls in hoop skirts and pantalettes flounced over the pavements, rode about in carriages that quaintly messed up traffic. (By unwritten law, males who dressed up one year were let off the next.) For $2 a visitor could get a conducted tour through five stately old mansions. The Pilgrimages became big business. (This year Natchez expects 30,000 visitors, who will...
...Marxist revolutionary murals on which Rivera, Orozco and Siqueiros rode to fame has pretty well petered out today, but the art of easel painting is running full blast. A flourishing group of some 40 able painters, including Abstractionists Carlos Orozco Romero and Carlos Merida, splashily realistic Jesus Guerrero Galvan and Federico Cantu, are beginning to be known in the U. S. Among the new ones touted by Critic Helm are Antonio Ruiz, who paints street scenes in a Covarrubias-like style, and 21-year-old Guillermo Meza, who took up painting be cause he didn't have enough money...
...three days the U. S. Navy took over Sydney. Sailors rode free on busses, trains and trams, were ushered into theatres without charge, fed in Australian service men's buffets. With Sydney's girls, hungry for masculine entertainment since some 150,000 young Australians went abroad to fight for Britain, they bathed in the warm surf on Sydney beaches, picnicked, danced, reclined in the parks. At busy King's Cross intersection one sailor stopped traffic, led passers-by in song while police good-naturedly looked...