Word: rodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garry Owen, a drinking song whose lilting melody strongly resembles The Campbells Are Coming. Custer, then a lieutenant colonel of cavalry, chose Garry Owen as the regimental march of the ?th soon after the regiment was organized in 1866, heard it for the last time just before the 7th rode off in 1876-to massacre by Chief Crazy Horse's Sioux on the Little Big Horn...
Last week, just 25 years after Parson Frakes rode into the Kentucky backwoods not far from Cumberland Gap, the mountaineers gathered at the settlement to celebrate the anniversary. There are now 22 buildings on 750 acres of farm, timber and coal land. The sign over the post office door reads: "U.S. Post Office Frakes...
Robert Taft did in fact appear in western Illinois to speak a word for Dirksen and castigate the Fair Deal. He arrived by plane at the Galesburg airport, rode out to Galesburg's Drive-In Theater to address, a Sunday crowd of 5,000. Dirksen was there to make an introduction while tired Bob Taft, with enough to do to get himself re-elected in Ohio, studied his notes and yawned unabashedly...
...Austerity Diet. But when Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in Los Angeles one morning last week, she seemed no more disturbed than a veteran kindergarten teacher who has heard a little minor scuffling in the back of the room. She greeted both Jimmy and Helen with cries of matriarchal affection and rode off to Jimmy's Beverly Hills mansion with them as tranquilly as if she were taking both to be fitted with teeth braces and sensible shoes...
...raft itself was never in serious danger. Outside of a couple of storms, the vast Pacific obligingly lived up to its name. The Kon-Tiki had been built cunningly and rode the seas like a chip. "The more leaks the better. Through the gaps in our floor the water ran out but never in." Only once was a crewman in serious danger, when Watzinger fell overboard and was unable to catch up with the raft, which was at the mercy of the current. Haugland jumped in with a life line and rescued him while the other four watched with horror...