Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dark-eyed Adela Velarde was 14 when she left Ciudad Juárez to join the army of General Venustiano Carranza. She became a nurse. Dressed in a green uniform cut from the curtains of a Pullman car, she rode through the Mexican Revolution on a grey hospital train under the watchful eye of a veteran head nurse named Leonor Villegas de Manon...
...week, the man who, in his years in the East Block, had made Canada a nation, was driven to Rideau Hall, residence of Governor-General Viscount Alexander of Tunis. There he handed in his resignation. Liberal Leader Louis St. Laurent was named to take his place. Then Mackenzie King rode home with his memories to the peace & sepulchral quiet of cavernous Laurier House...
...routine was to open a Bible and poke a needle into it for an omen. One year, probing for Tallulah's future, the needle stuck on the name Jezebel. "Oh, that's terrible," said Estelle. "Jezebel was thrown to the dogs." "Yes," throbbed Tallulah, "but first she rode with kings and princes...
...Mexicans, who rode off with horsemanship honors at last summer's Olympics, jogged confidently into the arena at Madison Square Garden last week. Only two nations-France and Canada-bothered to compete against them* in the military events of the National Horse Show, the World Series of the horsy set. Shrugged one member of Canada's four-man team: "We just came to do the best we can. But the Mexicans, it is their whole life...
...Olympics, Maestro Mariles was easily the best horseman of the prize-winning Mexicans. In Manhattan last week, he won the West Point Challenge Trophy on his pet 18-year-old jumper, Resorte. He rode a horse like a champion -without seeming to work at it. The big secret of Mexican riding is controlling the horse's movements almost entirely through the rider's legs-not his hands. Says Mariles: "The motor of the horse is in back, not in front. A horse is not an automobile; you don't drive him by his nose...