Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children, though they were other people's, and illegitimate, to boot. More important, it first mated this predestined dove with Walter Pidgeon. Blossoms was Miss Garson's first real hit as a leading lady. But where Blossoms fumbled for the Garson beam, Mrs. Miniver found it, and rode it into box-office history. Random Harvest rode it right out of the park...
...sick were cared for in the British military hospital. We drove British ambulances, used their gasoline, rode their bicycles, ate the Indian food which some unusually smart quartermaster obtained by hiring an Indian agent to buy for us in open market...
Charlie Wilson was transferred to Bridgeport. He rode into Bridgeport in 1923 in a green Standard sedan. He rode out, 14 years later, in a sleek 8-cylinder Cadillac. Between those two rides he made his reputation as a production man. When he arrived, a certain cable-wrapping operation took 24 hours. After he had tinkered with the process, it took exactly 58 seconds...
Winston Churchill pursued an annual practice last week, rode down into the City to speak at the Lord Mayor's inauguration in London's Mansion House. His speech was not one of the great Churchill feats, but some of its phrasing had the master's touch...
...rode through the bedlam of the Place de la Concorde, staring with frigid disapproval at the hysterical, joy-drunk mobs, who threatened to engulf him. His heart and his tongue alike were prophetically bitter: the war, though mercifully over, had not been won. Into sullen, unmolested Germany marched a U.S. Army of Occupation. Pershing saw a future that wishful, gentler men could...