Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force Transport Command carried the President and his party 2,000 miles to Liberia, only republic in Africa, founded in 1822 as a colony for freed U.S. slaves. There Franklin Roosevelt lunched with chocolate-hued President Edwin James Barclay, toured part of the million-acre Firestone rubber plantation, rode with his Liberian confrere in a jeep to review U.S. Negro troops...
...Roosevelt's schoolboy French, sometimes through an interpreter, the two Presidents announced that they were determined to keep the Atlantic Ocean "safe for all," that Africa's Dakar must never again become "a blockade or an invasion threat against the two Americas." And once more the President rode in a jeep-with his Brazilian confrere-this time to review U.S. troops at the Natal air base...
Montgomery did not stay long at Shepheard's. At 5 o'clock in the morning the day after his arrival, he rode into the desert with a young cavalry aide...
Pilgrim's Progress. He rode across the bloody sands of Egypt. He rolled through Matrûh, where Rommel's overturned guns and tanks lay like beetles on their backs in the African sun. He did not destroy Rommel there. Rommel with the fleeing fraction of his army escaped through Hellfire Pass, where a few New Zealanders routed his rear guard...
...still takes a small boy's delight in his fans. One evening he rode up to a San Diego camp theater with a general in a jeep, hopped out, swaggered through a crowd of Marines and declared: "I don't know about you fellows, but I'm with the general." Whereupon the general stuck out his chest too, observed: "I don't know about you fellows, but I'm with Bob Hope...