Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sized, yellow-streaked piece of rock. He heard them say, in Spanish, that it was a sample of uranium ore, and that the Government was offering a $10,000 prize to prospectors who made a big strike. Paddy decided to try finding some and that same day, as he rode his horse homeward, he spotted an outcropping of the odd-looking rock. He broke off some. Next day he took it to Grants, gave it to the mayor and asked him to get it analyzed...
Witness Ludwig Tobias said Ilse kicked out 13 of his teeth. Six witnesses testified that Ilse rode her horse through a group of prisoners, lashed them with her whip...
Eddie Arcaro, who rode the Prince, thought his three-year-old might have had the worst of the weights (130 Ibs.) against five-year-old Noor (also 130 Ibs.) -but "still and all, my hat is off to Noor." Said wrinkled Jockey Johnny Longden: "Noor is the greatest stakes horse I ever rode." Said Noor's owner, Mrs. Charles S. Howard: "I believe we'll just retire him at his peak...
Jockey Don Meade rode his first winner in 1930, has spent almost half the time since then serving out "lifetime" suspensions. The Florida State Racing Commission ruled him off the track in 1936 for betting against his own mounts. Three years later, when he pleaded hardship and reformation, Florida relented and lifted the ban (which had barred him from other tracks as well...
...fashioned carols rolled forth as usual, but in some parts of the U.S. the age seemed to be catching up to Santa Claus. Dallas' big A. Harris & Co. department store had converted roly-poly Santa into a tall, flat-flanked cowboy, who rode in a buckboard instead of a sleigh, wore a bright red shirt and long white beard but no other traditional trappings. In Pekin, Ill., when a more conventional Santa came wheeling through town in a parade, he was ignominiously snowballed by teenagers...