Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home with loud huzzas when she came back to Broadway last fall in John Steinbeck's gauntly Saroyanesque play, Burning Bright. But in the face of Steinbeck's dreary obscurities, the best most of them could muster was a cordial hello. Last month, when Barbara at last rode into town on a good play, the huzzas were unanimous...
Colonel Growdon, a lean, carrot-topped tanker with the cold blue eyes and competent air of a professional fighting man, rode at the van. His Pattons snorted through desolate villages, past a British Churchill tank destroyed in the defense of Seoul last year, past South Korean civilians whose tentative manseis showed their bewilderment over this latest thrust of armed forces through their countryside. There was little sign of the enemy. Occasionally a single rifle shot, or a flurry of shots, rang out. Once a jeep, hustling around a sweeping curve, hit a Russian-made wooden-boxed mine; in a thundering...
...being an informer." The committee agreed to force no public disclosures, instead closed the doors and let Parks finish his confession in private, later let the press know that he had named a dozen other movie people as members of his cell. After the closed hearings, Parks rode off to face his future, "doubtful, after appearing before the committee, whether my career will be continued...
Days passed, and still Barcelona s staunch people walked. After one stormy meeting at the city hall, Governor Baeza Alegria announced: "What we need is a civic example from the highest." Out he marched, and boarded a streetcar to set an example for strikebreakers. But he rode alone. Eventually his trolley bumped into a stone barricade, and he gave...
Growing Pains. The airlines' early passengers were a hardy lot. Bundled in leather flying suits and fur-lined helmets, they rode singly in open de Havilland4 cockpits atop piles of mail sacks, or cramped side by side in a cubbyhole in front of the pilot of the Boeing...