Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...early at his ranch in the rugged Jackson Hole country, donned an old shirt, blue denim pants and cowboy boots. He put on his big black Stetson with the chin strap, grabbed his trusty six-shooter and climbed aboard his trusty white mare. In the fresh morning air he rode through the fertile valley to join a posse of ranchers...
Down, down, down he fell, and when he landed gently he was on the platform of a great hall in 1944. Before him a rousing parade was in progress. At its head, astride the White Horse, rode Representative Hamilton Fish, magnificent in khaki and gold braid. The White Horse was walking backward. Next came Colonel McCormick, Captain Patterson and "Cissie" Patterson, dressed as the Spirit of '76 with drums and fife abeat and asqueal. They were followed by rank on rank of portly male and female Delegates, all dressed like Grand Marshal Fish, all on similar white horses, each...
...keep vigilant patrol over his domain. The 105 U.S. planes which had failed to reach France in 1940 had long since rusted into disuse; the aircraft carrier Béarn, the cruiser Emile Berlin and 140,000 tons of merchant shipping-which the United Nations could well use-rode listlessly at anchor, fouled with barnacles...
Monterrey had known for five days that it was to have an important visitor. As Franklin Roosevelt rode through the pennant-bedecked streets, señoritas threw flowers and confetti from the balconies. That night, he and Avila Camacho sat down to a seven-course dinner. While Eleanor Roosevelt tried her newly learned Spanish on Señora Camacho, the two Presidents conversed through an interpreter. Then they rose to address their countries by radio. Their speeches were filled with Good Neighborliness, but nothing much else...
...shell exploded close by. A four-inch fragment tore across his left shoulder and smashed the tip of his collar bone. A splinter about an inch and a half long pierced his helmet and came to rest against the base of his skull. The General walked to a jeep, rode three hours to a hospital, was operated on, said: "I'll be back there soon. I'm looking for my clothes now. The shoulder doesn't hurt any. After another good night's sleep I'll be ready for war again." But his doctors thought...