Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were new picketing techniques. In North Andover, Mass., mounted steelworkers rode horseback in front of the Davis & Furber Machine Co. carrying signs: "Let's Share Profits." In Los Angeles, a returned veteran dressed up in a Luftwaffe uniform and German gas mask to picket Consolidated Steel...
...James Boyd's Marching On, a novel of the South in the 1860s, Big Bill the Brakeman, who rode the historic Wilmington-Weldon (N.C.) run, bragged that he worked on "the wreckingest road in the Union." The Carolinas were beginning to wonder if they were getting to be the wreckingest states...
...battles, Sir Richard reminisced: "There was a bruise on your left thigh." Often he muttered tenderly: "Beloved half-wit!" At last, Honor flung off the bed sheets "and let him look upon the crumpled limbs that he had once known whole and clean." "Farewell, then, sweetheart," cried Richard, and rode away...
...placed in a dark room it made the whole room shine as if it were lit up by many candles. King Vyslav put the feather in his study as a keepsake, to be treasured forever." But the King still wanted the Firebird taken alive. So prince Ivan rode in search...
...rode near and far, high and low, along bypaths and by-ways- for speedily a tale is spun, but with less speed a deed is done- until he came to a wide, open field, a green meadow. And there in the field stood a pillar, and on the pillar these words were written : 'Whosoever goes from this pillar on the road straight before him will be cold and hungry. Whosoever goes to the right side will be safe and sound, but his horse will be killed.'" What happened when Prince Ivan turned to the right, his adventures with...