Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome Carlos Prio Socarras had heard enough of the returns to know that he would be Cuba's next President. He left the Havana headquarters of the Auténtico Party, hustled home to change his guayabera (sport shirt) and slacks for a white linen suit. Then he rode off to the presidential palace in a horn-tooting, placard-plastered motorcade...
...Dewey, the victor of Oregon, rode the popular Republican crest last week. When newsmen told him that Harold Stassen had once again declared-with a snappish no-that he would not run for Vice President on a ticket with Dewey, Governor Tom replied: "That's the biggest laugh I've had in a long time...
While posing as the Sultan of Zanzibar, he reviewed a unit of the British fleet at Portsmouth, England. With his "suite,"* Cole rode down on a special train for the review, and he noticed that the dining-car attendants were without white gloves. He had the train stopped and white gloves were procured from the next town, as "His Royal Highness" was unused to being served by ungloved attendants. The actual review of the fleet was carried out successfully...
Stassen, charging back into the state which he once thought was sewed up, had traveled some 2,465 miles in nine days. He spoke in a drenching rain at Coos Bay, addressed a crowd huddled under umbrellas at Newport, rode a white horse in Ontario, drank "blue ox milk" to please Roseburg's Paul Bunyan Club. Despite his victories over Dewey in Wisconsin and Nebraska, Stassen could not afford a defeat. But neither could Dewey. It was a knock-down fight which had astonished nobody so much as the open-mouthed voters of Oregon...
Alban Berg was a composer who rode to fame on only one work. His great, gloomy atonal opera, Wozzeck, is seldom performed, but it put his name in the musical history books...