Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...search went on, so many models and photographers sang Lisa's praises that her selection was a foregone conclusion. To research the story, Miss Fremd spent long hours with Lisa. She ate lunches and dinners with her (and teased Lisa because she always ordered smoked ham), rode around in her red convertible while appreciative pedestrians whistled, went swimming on a lonely Long Island beach, and even persuaded Lisa to burlesque some of her high-fashion poses (see cuts...
...Else. The party-liners rolled on. Burly President Fitzgerald rode victoriously into another term by a vote of 2,335 to 1,500; Secretary-Treasurer Julius Emspak and James J. Matles, the U.E.'s top organizer, rode back in with him. Then the triumphant triumvirate threw down a six-point ultimatum to Phil Murray. Its net: punish other C.I.O. unions for "raiding" U.E. membership ranks-or else...
...They rode up & down the cliff in ancient funiculars (the "Inclines"), jammed the buses and trolley cars which filled the cobblestone, alley-like streets. The luckier and better-paid lived in nearby suburbs. Most of the wealthy had fled to the distant suburbs of Sewickley Heights, Fox Chapel, or to Rolling Rock, 50 miles to the east in the mountains near the Pennsylvania Turnpike...
...mountain road in black limousines rode Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and five members of his day-old Cabinet. A guard of honor of ten U.S., ten British, ten French soldiers snapped to attention for the Germans. Waiting in a drawing room were the high commissioners: the U.S.'s cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help...
Since the first of the year. Thomas' duties have taken him to Ceylon, India, Siam, China, Korea, French Indo-china, Japan and the Philippines. He rode the last scheduled flight out of Shanghat hours before the city fell to the Chinese Reds last spring...