Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...contemporaries remember him as a slender, dark, fiery-eyed youngster who rode beautifully, could do anything with his hands and did nothing with his mind. Also he stuttered. Some of his classmates admired his dash. Others, of the sober sort, considered him thoroughly worthless. They made a play on his name: Tear-around-the-mess-hall Allen...
...reservation (for which I wired ahead two days previous). . . . Reporting to the train at the appointed hour, I found that although I already possessed a Pullman reservation, it had been sold again to a civilian who already occupied the berth (it being then 11 o'clock). Therefore, I rode in a coach sitting upon my suitcase-no seats there either, all night and half of the next day-contemplating my reservation, which I still held blissfully in my hand. I finally got a seat in the men's room of a Pullman car. Arriving at Springfield...
When Bazaine rode out to command the vital border fortress of Metz in 1870 (and, a month later, to become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along...
...Capetown a woman who had given birth to a baby two hours before pushed her doctor aside and rode by taxi to vote. In Durban another woman arrived by ambulance, was carried on a stretcher into the polling hall. In Smuts's own constituency, Standerton, a septuagenarian Scot, recovering from a heart attack, insisted on voting for Smuts, collapsed and died before he could make his cross...
...pundits rode in on a powerful historical groundswell, which really began with the Munich Crisis of 1938. That crisis became a great personal triumph for healthy, hearty, opinionated Hans von Kaltenborn. He was the only important commentator on the U.S. air at the time who was ready for it. He had a good idea of what Munich meant and said so. He was ahead of the printed press and the other networks...