Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frederic Remington was as big as all outdoors. He stood over six feet and weighed, in his late years, as much as 300 pounds. He rode like a Comanche and drank like an unreconstructed reservation Indian-and he recorded the facts of Wild Western life with rare flair...
...Manhattan last week, Automaker Joseph Washington Frazer proudly displayed two shiny new cars. One, in which Joe rode down to the City Hall himself, was the $1,600 Frazer. The other was the slightly cheaper Kaiser Special. Both of them, said Joe Frazer proudly, had been built "on the production line" in the Kaiser-Frazer Corp.'s Willow Run plant. New York was impressed...
...16th Century Jesuit crossed the Channel in high spirits and in the gallant disguise-according to later charges-of "a velvet hat and a feather, a buff leather jerkin and velvet Venetians." For a full year Campion rode up & down the English counties, eluding the Queen's men, saying Mass in secret in Catholic houses. The Jesuits, Waugh says, "came with gaiety among a people where hope was dead...
...last minute the Senate had added two minor amendments. Otherwise the committee's recommendations (TIME, April 22) rode through untouched. A five-man, full-time civilian commission would have complete and sweeping powers over every phase of atomic research, production, engineering and application. A military liaison committee, a nine-man advisory board of civilians appointed by the President, and a bi-partisan congressional committee would act as a check and conscience on the operations of the Atomic Commission. The whole bill was geared to mesh with any future international control adopted...
...seven when the Civil War was lost and a squadron of Union cavalry rode down a dusty road and into his home town of Lynchburg, Va. A blue-clad rider hauled him up into the saddle and asked: "What do you want to be when you grow up?" He was frail, sickly and small for his age. But he struck out wildly and screamed: "A Confederate major who shoots Yankees." Carter Glass never outgrew his frailty, his sickliness, his ferocity with fists and tongue. And he never forgot -not for a minute-he was a Virginian and a Democrat...