Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York the ticker tape rained down as they rode up the Broadway canyon. In Washington they shook hands with the President. Baltimore showed them a sham battle. In Detroit they visited bomber plants. Portland dropped rose petals on their broad shoulders. In Los Angeles they danced with movie stars...
...bonds. They went cheerfully, did their duty like good soldiers. They had fun, too. The entertainment was lavish. The tables creaked with steak and chicken and lobster and capon. They had big leisurely breakfasts in their hotel rooms. Smart debs and sleek models took them to nightclubs. They rode in open cars, so the people could see them better...
Revere was already an old hand at revolution. He was the Boston Committee of Safety's most trusted courier, had ridden thousands of miles. He rode four times to Philadelphia; he could always be trusted to say the right thing. He rode to Durham N.H. to order a raid on the British fort at Portsmouth. Tired, he slept through the raid. He took part in the Boston Tea Party which "spread a windrow of tea from Boston all the way to Dorchester." Without sleep he started for Philadelphia to report what had happened...
...Common Grave" near by. That grave holds the dust of 127,000 Russians who died at Sevastopol in 1854-55, when Britain and her allies in the Crimean War besieged the city. Nine miles south of Sevastopol is the town of Balaklava, where the Light Brigade's 600 rode against the Russian batteries. Last week many times 600 Nazis died near Balaklava, but the Russians called their defensive maze of gunpits and tank traps nothing so poetic as "the valley of death." They called it "the meat grinder." Jaws of the grinder were two stony heights, Fediukhiny...
...squeeze was on. Without gasoline to burn, the U.S. was getting back on to an older method of locomotion: shanks' mare. In 17 States the gas rationing had already sharply changed the lives of 8,500,000 motorists and the uncounted millions who rode with them. After July 1 the meager rations would probably be made more meager. And some time after July 1 the entire nation would go on rations. The reason was one word: rubber...