Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Steve Donoghue, 60, tiny, socially sought-after British jockey who rode six Derby winners in his 30-year career, won the Queen Alexandra Stakes at Ascot six times in succession; of a heart attack; in London. He once declined the post of royal jockey to the late King George V with a frank explanation: the royal string was not quite up to his standard...
Above them rode farther-roving P47 missions to dive-bomb and strafe every moving truck, self-propelled gun or railroad train fof many miles beyond, while higher still was the steady rumble of the great silver Fortresses in the topmost sky, purring distantly on to knock out the rearmost reinforcement areas, supply points and marshaling yards...
...dawn when the cavalcade began to flow into the rendezvous, a native village. There ambulances and trucks were waiting. The prisoners walked and rode between lines of curious infantrymen. They tried to be casual. They said, "Hi, Yanks," and hoped no one noticed that their voices quavered. They tried to give officers the regulation salute and to keep a soldierly bearing...
Last week the citizens were part of the Army. The Volkssturm men who felled trees, dug trenches and fashioned barricades from bomb rubble were simply civilians with red arm bands. Women rode on the antiaircraft guns pulling out for the Oder front. The "mayor," this time, was clubfooted Paul Joseph Goebbels (Gauleiter of Berlin), who screamed defiance over the radio: "Factories will be blown up and the whole capital scorched...
...knowed all the lizards by their first names, except the younger set." A young fellow, or a small man, was said to be fryin' size. When the cowboy got drunk he liked to have everyone know it - he said he cut his wolf loose. Once four young cowpunchers rode their horses into a New Mexico saloon where an Eastern drummer was having a drink. When the drummer complained to the bartender that the horses jostled him, the bartender snorted, "What the hell y'u doin' in here afoot, anyhow?" When two friendly riders met on the trail...