Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City of Jerusalem, toward noon one day last week, a white-robed old man with piercing eyes and a soldierly bearing walked across the compound of the Mosque of the Rock, believed by the faithful to enclose the rock from which the Prophet Mohamed rode to heaven on a white steed. King Abdullah of Jordan, who traces his descent from the Prophet himself, was making his weekly visit to the shrine to honor the Prophet and the memory of his own father, Hussein, onetime Sherif of Mecca (Custodian of the Holy Places) and King of the Hejaz, whose bones...
...where she also saw Russian soldiers jeeping about Vienna, and made at least one trip a day to sample the art of fine pastry cooks. She also traveled around Italy and France, "did all the things tourists usually do-went up the Eiffel Tower, visited the Colosseum and catacombs, rode along the Appian Way." Her favorite spots: the book stalls along the Seine in Paris...
Then, in true thriller fashion, U.S. Ambassador Henry Grady rode to the rescue-or temporary rescue. He sent a go-between to the bedside of frail, faint-prone Premier Mohammed Mossadeq, who was so weak that the doctors gave him a transfusion (seeing that it was American plasma, Mossadeq cracked:"Do you think it will make me more reasonable?"). On Grady's plea, Mossadeq gave London two more days to answer the Iranian ultimatum. For the time being, at least, the British were still hanging...
...help, he knows where I live." But Felipa Moreno, 27, had a glowing testimonial: "I can never thank San Antonio enough for the beautiful accident he provided me. Four years ago, I wanted a husband very badly. After my prayers, I was in such a state of ecstasy I rode the bus three blocks past my stop and jumped off while it was still moving. I broke my leg, and a strong man picked me up in his arms and carried me to a drugstore and phoned the Red Cross. For a month he visited me daily...
Test Flight. In Baltimore, after cracking up a stolen hearse, Harry Jones explained that he merely wanted "to see how the thing rode before I died...