Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Peasant Party Leader Juliu Maniu, Antonescu had stolen the thunder from his most popular opponent, had picked up the most popular issue in the country. If that failed to stop the Guard, Germany was ready to take over through a new and weaker puppet. Through the streets of Bucharest rode King Mihai I, a lone Rumanian significantly bringing up the rear of a Nazi motorized division...
...keep the night-flying defenders there preoccupied. Meantime wave after wave of heavy-laden bombers passed around and northwest to Coventry. All night they kept at it until they had dropped over 500 tons of high explosive, 30 tons of incendiaries on the old city where Lady Godiva once rode naked to protest against high taxes. Coventry, "Britain's Detroit"-a city of 200,000 on the southern edge of the Midlands-became one solid, seething mass of fire. Not just the motor and airplane factories on the outskirts, but the entire heart of the city, square miles...
...Ohio's Diesel-smooth Republican machine is reminiscent of the days when well-oiled U. S. Republican machines ran almost everything that moved. Although it couldn't carry the State for Wendell Willkie, silver-haired Governor John William Bricker rode in on it ahead of his Democratic opponent, natty, spatty Tree Surgeon Martin Luther Davey...
...Martin." Manager Frisch stared. Then he asked Rookie Martin why he was late. Martin explained that he had been detained in jail for riding a freight. "But we sent you railroad tickets." Retorted Martin: "What do you take me for, a dope? I cashed them in and rode for nothing...
Strollers in Cannes spotted jaunty, whistling Maurice Chevalier cycling off to his greengrocer's, a market basket bouncing on the handle bars. Similarly straitened by gasoline famine, Cora Lapercerie, once the lissome toast of gaslit Montmartre, now circa 250 lb., rode over the cobbles in a small cart drawn by a straining Shetland pony...