Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Refreshed by a couple of hours at the cinema, the barrel-chested, slightly bandylegged churchman rode home on a jam-packed London underground train. As he left the underground, he linked arms with his wife and strode rapidly toward the red-&-black Tudor buildings of Fulham Palace, his residence as Lord Bishop of London...
...Christmas morning, Mike did not remember exactly how many drinks he had had or what it was he was trying to forget. He found himself with an automatic revolver which he later said a soldier had given him. He went out on the street, hailed a cab, rode to Newark. Flashing his gun, he relieved the cab driver...
...good swordsman, a bad liar, and a miser when it came to hanging on to his illusions. When Pedro came upon two ruffians in the forest attacking Catana Pérez (clad only in her shoes, stocking and a torn shift), he cut one with his whip and rode the other down with his horse, though Catana was only a tavern keeper's daughter. And without quite knowing what he was doing, he delivered himself and his family into the power of the Inquisition by trying to help a soldier whose mother had been arrested as a witch...
They traveled through a country of night hawks, deer, bears, panthers, wildcats, and hunted turkeys by moonlight. At St. Louis they drove across the prairie through flowering and fragrant shrubs, past orchards bending and breaking with loads of fruit, where boys rode by on calico ponies "hallowing & laughing." Around the houses were "fat Negro wenches, drying apples & peaches on boards under trees," and in the villages were strapping Indian squaws from the tribes famed for the beauty of their women. Irving thought the Indians were like strange, wild, magnificent prairie birds. They rode by in scarlet turbans with plumes...
Although trained in old style manner, Lt. Hackett rode into the Tunisian campaign with the mechanized cavalry swirling across sandy stretches of battle-ground in a jeep. Operating as a combat intelligence officer in North Africa, he took part in most of the major battles including Gafas, Seined Maknassey, Jbol Berda, and finally El Guettar, where on a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines, he was hurled 15 feet by an exploding German 88 men shell, which tore away parts of both his legs...