Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under a threatening midwest sky, he rode into Fulton, Mo. (pop. 8,300), in Westminster College's packed gymnasium delivered his speech and received his honorary LL.D. degree from President Franc L. McCluer...
...knew who made 20-odd trips with an ammunition-carrying LCI from Bizerte to Sicily, and who later was blown to bits at Salerno, received a posthumous commendation from the Secretary of the Navy. .. . But I rode up on the train from Washington not long ago with a WAVE who hadn't been out of the country, and on her chest was the same .. .ribbon...
Dean Blanding is a tall, gaunt, plain-drawling person who has come a long way from the small farm she was born on near Lexington, Ky. In her early teens, she got $10 a month for yanking on the bell ropes of the local Episcopal church. She often rode with her uncle, a horse-&-buggy doctor, as he made his rounds, and her earliest ambition was to be a doctor herself. But she settled to a more modest ambition when her father died while she was in high school; she borrowed money and enrolled at the New Haven, Conn. Normal...
Winston Churchill, last in Cuba as an impetuous young lieutenant taking a first excited peek at a shooting war, returned after 51 years of a roving commission. In 1895 he had ridden (as an observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given...
Mexico's left-wing moderns, who rode to fame in the turbulent revolutionary days of Mexico's Obregon Regime (1920-24), jumped at the chance to participate as painters, for the second time in their lives, in a political renaissance...