Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Guantanamo, the President rode around the base in an open car, stopped to greet some 200 children who welcomed him by singing America. One, a freckle-faced twelve-year-old boy, stepped forward to present a scrapbook about the base's school. After a brave start, the boy flubbed his long-rehearsed speech. Harry Truman, who knows how it feels to stumble over lines, leaned down and whispered: "Never mind, son." The boy beamed...
...that the nuisance is, quite possibly, permanent. TIME'S Paul O'Neil wrote "The Last Traffic Jam" (Dec. 15, 1947) which, by obvious exaggeration, got over a point that was, in a way, news to nobody. The story's details were not fantasy. Researcher Marianna Albert rode in taxis for a whole day to get the kind of specifics that made the story. Out of the day she got one quote, well worth the trouble. Said a Manhattan cabbie: "We're beat. We got expressions just like the people in Europe. It used...
...also for Andover while Emil Van Peborgh got some experience in the Argentine. Bennett has playing time behind him at the Squadron "A" indoor area in New York. On the second string, Tim White, brother of two former Harvard players, played in Cleveland; Tom Calhoun, brother of Sandy, also rode in Manila; Emery Houghton wielded the mallet in Arizona. "Unfortunately some of us haven't been on a horse since before the war," Bennett added...
...admires extravagantly, Idaho's extraverted Senator Glen H. Taylor throws no boomerangs, chews no rutabagas. But he has his moments. Once he plumped his family on the steps of the Capitol and, banjo in hand, crooned a tune about how he needed a home. Last fall, he rode up to the Capitol steps on horseback, following a countrywide "peace" tour...
Invitation to the Souls. But for a moment last week the festival tumult subsided. Through the tent city moved a truck with a raised platform draped in India's tricolor flag. On top rode an earthenware brown urn. Within it were most of the ashes of Mohandas Gandhi. Chatter was hushed as the catafalque moved slowly past...