Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon, preceded by a sirening jeep, he rode to the reviewing stand in a Lend-Lease command car bedecked with the colors of American nations. For two hours he saluted and watched a military parade as Paraguay's crack little army marched, rode and rumbled by in Lend-Lease trucks and jeeps. Murinigo and everybody knew that so long as the parading army supports...
Dour-lipped Prime Minister John Curtin rode a Parliamentary bucking horse through the first 23 months of Australia's wartime Labor Government. The Opposition barked at his heels like Kelpie dogs, while the man-in-the-saddle sought to build up his country's war contributions and at the same time justify his actions to the trades unions who had put him up. "Honest John" Curtin was a fair dinkum rider; last week 4,500,000 of his countrymen went to the polls for a general election (TIME, Aug. 23), voted Labor twelve of the Opposition...
...Since the first Low Numbers were inducted, this Esquire GI has popped in & out of our leading magazines. Back in '41 he rode troop trains-in razor-creased wools and a Pershing cap! He later appeared in Guada, happy, smiling, clean as a boy scout poster. He arrived safely, and none the worse for wear, in North Africa. He showed up in New Guinea, a notoriously messy theater of war, and went so far as to sit near a very small puddle of water...
Khaki windbreaker buttoned crookedly, white cloth hat drooped around his ears, the Old Fisherman was all grins as he rode back to his special train at Birch Island Station,- Ontario, in an Army jeep. He spread out his palms in the classic fisherman's gesture, shortened the distance between them, leaned back his head and laughed...
...inland side of the column got a chance to cheer their favorites in a sulky race that seemed to be in full swing at a track which the marchers passed. Girls leaned from the grandstand and waved while the column pounded past, and several small boys rode bicycles in pursuit of the company...