Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tough job, has been violently criticized. If he made mistakes, he definitely never apologized for one. As Secretary of the Ministry of Shipping, he fought the U-boat menace in World War I and was knighted. As Joint Undersecretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1921, he rode hard on the rebellious Irish. He laid an iron hand on Ernest Bevin's general strike of 1926, and broke it. He governed India's restive province of Bengal for five years, came to be known as the most-shot-at man in the world, and freed...
Army Man. Colonel Perón. now tall, handsome and 48, was brought up on his father's ranch in bleak southern Argentina. His boyhood was like that of a healthy, western Yankee. He played and fought with the local boys, rode wild horses, hunted wild turkeys. He entered the Army's Military Academy, became a sublieutenant at 18, a full lieutenant...
...Once we rode up into the mountains to spend a weekend with a Tatar family in their hill yurt and had mare's milk and rode Kazak horses. Another day we went out to photograph all the local racial types-Chinese, White Russians, Uzbeks, Tatars, Uigurs, Manchus, Kazaks, So-lun. Each group decided to honor the visitors from America with a groaning banquet of its own foods in absolutely unrestrained Oriental quantities...
...once said: "[Canadians] use English for literature, Scotch for sermons and American for conversation." One of his most quoted sallies: "God takes care of fools, drunks and the United States of America." In Nonsense Novels he created the young man in love who "flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions...
...winding road from Berchtesgaden surged Adolf Hitler's six-wheel staff car. At the bronze gates beneath the brooding Berghof, Hungary's Regent Nicholas Horthy climbed stiffly out, entered the rock, rode 300 feet straight up through granite to the aerie's hushed reception hall where the Führer waited. Russian soldiers plunging toward the Carpathians had made the summons urgent. Briefly, now, and harshly, Hitler outlined his demands: the time had come to "coordinate" Germany's eager little ally. Full military occupation would be necessary, and a more tractable government; henceforth, too, more Hungarian...