Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aviatrix Reitsch rode an empty explosive compartment, spying on the wings through a periscope. She found the trouble, was seriously injured after four days of such superwoman tests. For her pains: the Iron Cross, First Class...
They had been moved out last November. Farmers grumbled, drove cows and horses inland. Grannies whimpered, packed their shabby, precious gewgaws in cardboard cartons, rode away triumphantly in limousines provided by the Government. Vicars did their vicarish best to spread cheer, dismantled stained glass windows with leaden hands. Then U.S. troops moved in, practiced landings with tanks under live shells. Those Americans are in Normandy...
...foreigners of any sort! . . . Clear out, you fellows, double-quick, I say. We may hate one another but we hate you most. ... If it's fifty-five hundred years we shall get rid of you, yes, we shall drive every blasted Englishman into the sea, and then" -he rode against him furiously-"and then," he concluded, half-kissing him, "you and I shall be friends...
...Duck Hill, Miss, (where two Negro civilians were lynched several years ago), Negro troops gathered along the railroad tracks one night and peppered the town with a barrage of rifle shots. No one was hurt. A few weeks ago Negro soldiers rode through Duck Hill firing blanks, frightening the whites out of their wits. Recently at Brookley Field, Ala. Negro troops fired on M.P. s who came into their barracks looking for a man supposed to have assaulted a bootlegger. Their white general quelled the uproar, mainly by diplomatic handling of his angry troops...
Born in Scotland 50 years ago, she came to South Africa with her father shortly before the Boer War. A burgher of the Orange Free State, her father rode in a commando against the British. When union came, Margaret, a homely girl with an intelligent face, began a schooling that carried her through South Africa's colleges and England's Oxford...