Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year plus 10% of winning purses). In the Kentucky Derby, Peewee Flinchum will probably ride Woolf's Prompt Pay, by the same sire as Lawrin (1938 Derby winner). His following hoped he would have better luck in the Derby than he did during his first bugless day. He rode four horses, but nary a winner...
Meanwhile Sumner Welles continued his overshadowed way. Last week when he got to Paris there were 200 mobile guards at the Gare de Lyon, 200 extra plainclothesmen, military motorcyclists to escort him to the Ritz Hotel. The Renault he rode in had steel armor, bulletproof glass, bulletproof tires. Paris correspondents, noting that George VI had received just such elaborate precautions, rushed 50 strong to his first press conference, where polite Sumner Welles reduced them to silence by saying that he could say nothing...
...dark night last week the M-1 rode at anchor off Dun Laoghaire in Dublin Bay. The crew, except for the watch, were in their bunks. From somewhere among the shadowy pierheads, 20 yards off, a rowboat put softly out, pulled alongside. Three men with the daring of none but I. R. A. itself leaped aboard, and set upon the watch. In the tussle, the watch managed to draw his pistol. As the attackers heaved him overboard, he fired three shots, rousing the sleeping.crew. The marauders fled to their boat, pulled frantically for shore and escaped. Eire's first...
...Russians would march all night northward out across the ice. Some rode in tanks, some in huge sledges driven by airplane motors. As dawn broke they would strike at the unfortified coast, gripping at small coastal islands, making a landing and trying to establish a foothold on shore, hitting occasionally for towns like Kotka. Hamina, Virolahti...
Greatest weakness of the subsidy program was the fact that 82% of all silver bought by the U. S. had come from overseas. In order to get their subsidy, the silver producers were willing that the U. S. squander indiscriminately abroad. Ranger Townsend rode through this weak point in the stockade, unloosed both barrels with a bill to end foreign silver purchases...