Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five days of the championship competition, 73 competitors roped and rode through the full rodeo schedule. The rough & tumble rides (for eight-second "eternities") on the 1,500-lb. brutish Brahmans* were matched by other wild & woolly events: bareback bronc riding, bulldogging, wild cow milking...
...glistening palace of glass and iron the like of which the world had never seen before, Queen Victoria opened London's Great Exhibition, in the hope that its example might "unite the industry of all the nations of the earth." Britannia rode the crest of the wave. As cannons roared a royal salute, thousands of visitors thronged the Crystal Palace to gape at its wonders-the industrial triumphs of the steam age, as well as a champagne made from rhubarb, a knife with 300 blades, and the original Turkish towel (which so pleased Britain's Queen that...
Died. Charles Gates Dawes, 85, 30th U.S. Vice President (under Calvin Coolidge) ; of coronary thrombosis; in Evanston, Ill. Son of a Civil War general and descendant of the William Dawes who rode with Paul Revere, he broke into politics by leading Illinois' Republican delegation into the McKinley camp in 1896, was appointed Comptroller of the Currency as a reward far his efforts. In World War I, his good friend, General John J. Pershing, made him chief purchasing officer for the A.E.F. and a brigadier general. After the war, Dawes urged the appointment of a national budget director, became, under...
...steps in its history. Vandenberg not only guided the steps with his eloquent, sometimes florid, always earnest, espousal of U.S. internationalism; he made them possible. At a time when no Democrat stepped forward to take leadership of the nation's foreign-policy program, Vandenberg assumed the burden. He rode herd on the balkiest members of his own party, hammered patchwork Administration proposals into workable legislation. He was talked about for the 1948 Republican presidential nomination, but would do nothing whatever to further his own chances. Sitting at night in his Wardman Park Hotel suite, he pecked...
...opening of Southern Methodist University's new Legal Center (see EDUCATION) doffed his formal grey Homburg for a blue-green five-gallon Stetson ("I feel like a damn fool in the thing"), then climbed aboard an old stagecoach provided by his host the Dallas Bar Association, rode out to take in his first rodeo and outdoor barbecue at a nearby ranch party...