Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tunner came over in August 1944 . . . The Hump was almost whipped-but not quite-by June 1944. There still remained those mythical monsters-of whom all the pilots had heard-that rode the winds of the Himalayas and slammed planes in,to mountains...
Last week, tall, elegant and unruffled, the Secretary was back at his daily routine. From his red brick house in Georgetown, he either rode to work in a department limousine, or walked with little Justice Felix Frankfurter, his onetime Harvard Law School teacher and close friend. In his fifth-floor office in the new State Department Building in Washington's Foggy Bottom, he tried not to listen to the criticisms, read key telegrams, listened to briefings, held conferences and with his blue, slightly protuberant eyes, studied the state of his foreign policy...
...first mobiles Calder made were wood and wire animals that moved in lifelike fashion when pulled about on strings. He designed them for a toy firm when he was down & out in Paris a quarter of a century ago. Next came a circus, composed of wire figurines that rode bareback, swung from trapezes and burst through hoops when Calder, crouched intently on the floor, released the proper springs. He entertained his friends with it, found it furiously lampooned as "Piggy Logan's Circus" in Thomas Wolfe's novel You Can't Go Home Again...
Since no U.S. tracks operate on Sunday, the two dead-heat kids spent Dec. 31 on foreign tracks. Culmone flew from Miami to Cuba's Oriental Park, rode in all eight races and booted home 3 winners. Shoemaker hopped a plane from New Orleans to Mexico's Agua Caliente, rode in eleven races there, also got home with 3 winners. Result: a triple dead heat with Miller...
...kind of days he was putting in. Last week he received scores of callers, many of them retiring lame-duck Congressmen. One evening, heavily guarded by Secret Service men, he rode up to Capitol Hill for a dinner honoring two key Democrats who had been defeated at the polls:Majority Leader Scott Lucas of Illinois and Party Whip Francis Myers of Pennsylvania. "I have learned," Harry Truman told the assembled lame ducks, "that if you stick around in public life long enough, defeat is certain...