Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Harry Truman rode in glory through the thunder of applause to the White House.* From the north portico, he told the cheering crowd: "It is overwhelming. It makes a man study and wonder whether he is worthy of the confidence, worthy of the responsibility which has been thrust upon...
...spring term, 'Cliffe riders will turn out for an intercollegiate horseback meet. Last year six Radcliffe girls rode against 20 Jackson College Yiders and took top honors in every class
MASSACHUSETTS. Paul Andrew Dever, 45, round-faced lawyer and Navy veteran, rode the Democratic tide to wash out the second-term bid of Republican Robert F. Bradford, of Boston's sedate Beacon Street...
After more than a century of intermittent haunting, the ghost of a gloomy British clergyman, Thomas Robert Malthus, was on the rampage last week. Cresting a wave of postwar pessimism, it flashed through the air on the radio, rode through the mails in magazines. Publishers opened their arms and presses to "Neo-Malthusian" manuscripts prophesying worldwide overpopulation and hunger. Two "scarce books"-Our Plundered Planet, by Fairfield Osborn, and Road to Survival (a Book-of-the-Month selection), by William Vogt-were glowingly reviewed and selling like hot cakes. Their influence has already reached around the world...
...full of hope. The summer had been cold and rainy, but it had been followed by a glorious golden autumn. On the freshly harvested fields, which had yielded a bumper crop, children launched their kites into the brisk wind; it seemed, sometimes, as though the gaily colored Drachen rode high enough to touch the C-54s which droned overhead in their ceaseless shuttle to Berlin...