Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From where I sat the Admiral wore in with hatches battened for a gale, carrying a reefed mainsail. He dropped a kedge at the caucus room door, and rode up into the eye of a gentle breeze, and backed his mainsail. There he delivered a walking ladder of ranging shots, reloaded and waited for the enemy to reply. The shells of the unified command in Europe and the Pacific Ocean areas were laid into his rigging...
...sharp autumn wind whistled past the skyscrapers, quickening the pulse of the city. In the Navy Yard in Brooklyn lay the spanking new carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt, ready for a presidential commissioning. Across Manhattan, in the brackish waters of the Hudson, an impressive fraction of the U.S. fleet rode at anchor, ready for a presidential review. There would be a parade for Harry Truman up Fifth Avenue, past the flags and the glittering shop windows. He would make a speech before hundreds of thousands on an open meadow in Central Park...
When Army tanks rolled into the Presidential Palace, Brazilians knew for sure that somebody was staging a coup. Shortly thereafter, Getulio Vargas, sitting in an automobile, rode out of his 15-year home...
...Orleans hit 30 years ago when the great Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong was just a kid following him around, carrying his cornet, getting lessons from him. Bunk played in the sporting houses on Basin Street, in the saloons above Canal Street, and in the band wagons that rode around town with the slidehorns hanging out over the tailgate. He went barnstorming for as little as $5 a week and tips. Twelve years ago Bunk lost his teeth and gave up playing. A Pittsburgh jazz fan found him, a toothless stooped laborer in the rice fields at New Iberia...
Before Government House on the historic Plaza de Mayo, over 500 mothers and sisters of arrested university students gathered to protest. Mounted police rode into the crowd, bowled women over, swung sabers at recalcitrant heads. At a signal, the horsemen wheeled and repeated the performance. From the windows of Government House, Argentine officialdom looked on with approval...