Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always slowed down at the school corner on the edge of town just before turning into the highway. They rented an old house across from the school. They paid a pumpkinseed vendor to stand beside a tree at the turn and shout "Viva Villa!"-once if the general rode in the front seat, twice if he rode in back...
...lines, truckmaking, banking. His biggest coup came in 1948, when he quietly bought enough stock to control the $428 million New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad (which had kicked him off its board of directors in 1947), before its management knew what was happening. In taking over, Citizen Dumaine rode from Boston to New Haven in a day coach. But Railroad Baron Dumaine rode home in a Pullman compartment. Working up until the end, he spent a busy day on the telephone, collapsed, was put to bed, died during the night. His last words: "It wasn't worth...
...Reds. The Koreans kept coming. Kouma leaped from his turret, crawled back to a .50-cal. machine gun mounted on the tank's rear deck, fired until it was empty. He hauled out his .45, emptied that, and began heaving grenades. Nine hours later, bleeding and exhausted, Kouma rode his tank back to the company line. In its wake, 250 of the enemy lay dead...
...only too glad to bow out and let the army take over. Result: one of the quietest revolutions in Latin American history. Brigadier General Hugo Ballivián, 49, Chaco War hero, became head of a ten-man junta (three generals, seven colonels). Ex-President Urriolagoitia rode peacefully from the palace to the airport, boarded a plane for Arica, Chile. Not a shot was fired...
...seen little Sul Ross College (enrollment: 1,000) of Alpine, Texas, ride off with the team title for the third straight year. Cotton Rosser's tight seat on the "rank" (i.e., fighting) stock won him individual show honors. But Sul Ross's captain, Harley May, again rode away with the All-Around Cowboy title (based on total points accumulated in year-long competition), with an all-around performance...